Verse 4

For we groan while we are in this tent, since we are weighed down, because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 15:53-54 : 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen,“Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
• 2 Cor 5:2 : 2 For in this earthly house we groan, because we desire to put on our heavenly dwelling,
• 2 Pet 1:13 : 13 Indeed, as long as I am in this tabernacle, I consider it right to stir you up by way of a reminder,
• Isa 25:8 : 8 he will swallow up death permanently. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from every face, and remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. Indeed, the LORD has announced it!