2 Corinthians 5:4

Yes, we who are in this tent certainly do sigh under our burdens, for we do not wish to lay aside that with which we are now clothed, but to put on more, so that our mortality may be absorbed in Life.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

In Context

3if indeed having really put on a robe we shall not be found to be unclothed.

5And He who formed us with this very end in view is God, who has given us His Spirit as a pledge and foretaste of that bliss.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 5:2For in this one we sigh, because we long to put on over it our dwelling which comes from Heaven--

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 5:2-12

The Believer's Prospect beyond Death. ( a. d. 57.) 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up… Read the whole commentary →

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