2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

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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 tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

Job 19:25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.

Psalms 56:9Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side.

John 14:2In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?

1 Corinthians 15:46The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

2 Corinthians 5:4For while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality 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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