2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Darby Translation

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 indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which [is] from heaven;

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.

Job 19:25And [as for] me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;

Psalms 56:9Then shall mine enemies return backward in the day when I call: this I know, for God is for me.

John 14:2In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, I had told you: for I go to prepare you a place;

1 Corinthians 15:46But that which is spiritual [was] not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual:

2 Corinthians 5:4For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that [what is] mortal may be swallowed up 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 →

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