always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord –

And I know that this man (whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows)

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.