Verse 4

For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 15:53-54 : 53 For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life. 54 But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life.
• 2 Cor 5:2 : 2 For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:
• 2 Pet 1:13 : 13 And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory;
• Isa 25:8 : 8 He has put an end to death for ever; and the Lord God will take away all weeping; and he will put an end to the shame of his people in all the earth: for the Lord has said it.