5:4 For we groan while we are in this tent, 1 since we are weighed down, 2 because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
5:5 Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose 3 is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment. 4
1 sn See the note in 5:1 on the phrase the tent we live in.
2 tn Or “we are burdened.”
3 tnGrk “for this very thing.”
4 tn Or “first installment,” “pledge,” “deposit” (see the note on the phrase “down payment” in 1:22).