2 Corinthians 5:1
For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.
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2For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:
Cross References
Genesis 3:19With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
Job 19:25But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;
Psalms 56:9\56:8\You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?
John 14:2In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?
1 Corinthians 15:46But that which is natural comes before that which is of the spirit.
2 Corinthians 5:4For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by 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 →