2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that, when our earthly house of this habitation is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.
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Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return.”
Job 19:25For I know that my Redeemer lives, and on the last day I will rise out of the earth.
Psalms 56:9Rise up, my glory. Rise up, psaltery and harp. I will arise in early morning.
John 14:2In my Father’s house, there are many dwelling places. If there were not, I would have told you. For I go to prepare a place for you.
1 Corinthians 15:46So what is, at first, not spiritual, but animal, next becomes spiritual.
2 Corinthians 5:4Then too, we who are in this tabernacle groan under the burden, because we do not want to be stripped, but rather to be clothed from above, so that what is mortal may be absorbed 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 →