2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle may be taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 invested with our house which is from heaven:

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Cross References

John 14:2Many mansions are in the house of my Father; but if it were not so, I would have told you; because I go to prepare a place for you.

1 Corinthians 15:46But that which is spiritual was not first, but that which is animal; afterward that which is spiritual.

2 Corinthians 5:4For indeed being in this tabernacle we groan, being burdened; not that we wish to be divested, but invested, that mortality may be swallowed up of 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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