2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that, if our earthly tent-habitation be destroyed, we have a building provided by God, a house not made with hands, everlasting, in the heavens.

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

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Cross References

Job 19:25Yet I know that my Vindicator liveth, And will hereafter stand up on the earth;

Psalms 56:9When I cry to thee, my enemies shall turn back; This I know, that God is for me.

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

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

2 Corinthians 5:4For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened; inasmuch as we do not desire to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon, that 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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