2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent were destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.

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In The King James Version

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

In Context

2For also in this we groan, longing to clothe ourselves with our habitation from heaven,

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

Job 19:25But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth.

Psalms 56:9Then shall my enemies turn back in the day that I call. This I know, that God is for me.

John 14:2In my Father's house are many dwellings, and if not, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

1 Corinthians 15:46Nevertheless the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual.

2 Corinthians 5:4For also those who are in the tent groan, being burdened, not in that we want to undress, but to clothe ourselves, so that the mortal may be swallowed up by the life.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 5:1

The apostle proceeds in showing the reasons why they did not faint under their afflictions, namely, their expectation, desire, and assurance of happiness after death ( ver. 1-5 ), and deduces an inference for the comfort of believers in their present state ( ver. 6-8 ), and another to quicken them in their duty, ver. 9-11 . Then he makes an apology for seeming to commend himself, and gives a good reason for his zeal and diligence ( ver. 12-15 ), and mentions two things that are necessary in order to our living to… Read the whole commentary →

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