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# Connecting Statement:
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Because believers will have a new body and have the Holy Spirit as a pledge, Paul reminds them to live by faith so that they may please the Lord.
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# while we are at home in the body
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Paul speaks of the physical body as if it were a place where a person dwells. Alternate translation: "while we are living in this earthly body" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# we are away from the Lord
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"we are not at home with the Lord" or "we are not in heaven with the Lord"