2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
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In Context
2For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
Cross References
Genesis 3:19You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
Job 19:25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
Psalms 56:9Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: that God is for me.
John 14:2In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
1 Corinthians 15:46However, that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.
2 Corinthians 5:4For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, 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 →