2 Corinthians 5:1

We know that if the earthly dwelling that we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God. It is a house not made by human hands, but an eternal house, in heaven.

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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 face you will eat bread, 1 until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. 1 For dust you are, and to dust you will return.”

Job 19:25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, 1 and that at last he will stand on the earth; 1

Psalms 56:9Then my enemies will turn back on the day that I call to you; 1 this I know, that God is for me. 1

John 14:2In the house of my Father are many rooms. If it were not so, I would have told you, for I am going to prepare a place for you.

1 Corinthians 15:46But the spiritual did not come first but the natural, and then the spiritual.

2 Corinthians 5:4For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened. We do not want to be unclothed. Instead, we want to be clothed, so 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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