He is willing to leave his earthly mansion to be with the Lord. His
charity to the Corinthians.
5:1. For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved,
that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in
heaven.
5:2. For in this also we groan, desiring to be clothed upon with our
habitation that is from heaven.
5:3. Yet so that we be found clothed, not naked.
5:4. For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burthened;
because we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that that which is
mortal may be swallowed up by life.
5:5. Now he that maketh us for this very thing is God, who hath given us
the pledge of the Spirit,
5:6. Therefore having always confidence, knowing that while we are in
the body we are absent from the Lord.