2 Corinthians 5:2
For in this also we groan, desiring to be clothed upon with our habitation that is from heaven.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
In Context
3Yet so that we be found clothed, not naked.
Cross References
Romans 7:24Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
1 Corinthians 15:53For this corruptible must put on incorruption; and this mortal must put on immortality.
Philippians 1:23But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 5:2-12
The Believer's Prospect beyond Death. ( a. d. 57.) 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up… Read the whole commentary →