2 Corinthians 5:1

For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands — age-during — in the heavens,

Young's Literal Translation

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 also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves,

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou [art], and unto dust thou turnest back.'

Job 19:25That — I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.

Psalms 56:9Then turn back do mine enemies in the day I call. This I have known, that God [is] for me.

John 14:2in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;

1 Corinthians 15:46but that which is spiritual [is] not first, but that which [was] natural, afterwards that which [is] spiritual.

2 Corinthians 5:4for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the 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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