“For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.”
For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life — groaning (stenazō recurs) marks not despair but eager anticipation. The goal is not disembodied escape but transformation (zōē katapinō thanaton, life swallows death): mortality is overcome not abandoned.
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