Words Mean Something....

"ABSENT FROM THE BODY, PRESENT WITH THE LORD!"... how many times have you heard this preached from the pulpit? It seems to be a ralling cry here in the south on any given Sunday morning or most definitely at a funeral. This phrase is usually repeated several times with no reference to the book and verse. This phrase leaves out 13 words from the KJ version of
II Cor 5:8, which in it's entirety reads: We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
And if you read the context of II Cor 5, I think you'll see that we live in an earthly tabernacle that we are current clothed with and a hope of a building of God in heaven, which is yet in the future. Paul's desire is not to be found in a naked state between the two, ie death.

So does this verse imply an immediate presentation in heaven upon death? If, as many preachers profess, you are absent from the body and present with the Lord upon death, then what is the "naked state"? In their scenerio a person would never be found "naked". Read the entire chapter and see if you think words mean something and does it really matter that 13 words are left out?