2 Corinthians 5:1

FOR we know that, if our earthly house of the tabernacle[5:1] were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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 in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven;

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Cross References

John 14:2In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; because I go to prepare a place for you.

1 Corinthians 15:46But the spiritual is not first, but the natural; and afterward the spiritual.

2 Corinthians 5:4For we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; in that we do not desire to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon, that what is mortal might 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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