2 Corinthians 5:4

American Standard Version (1901)

For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 15:53-54 : 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
  • 2 Cor 5:2 : 2 For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:
  • 2 Pet 1:13 : 13 And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
  • Isa 25:8 : 8 He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Jehovah hath spoken it.

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  • 2 Cor 5:1-3
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    1For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

    2For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:

    3if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

  • 1 Cor 15:49-54
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    49And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

    50Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

    51Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,

    52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

    53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

    54But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

  • 2 Cor 5:5-9
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    5Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

    6Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord

    7(for we walk by faith, not by sight);

    8we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

    9Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.

  • 2 Cor 4:9-12
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    9pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;

    10always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

    11For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

    12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

  • 2 Cor 4:16-18
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    16Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

    17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

    18while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

  • 2 Pet 1:14
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    14knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle cometh swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ signified unto me.

  • Rom 8:22-23
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    22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

    23And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for [our] adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body.

  • 1 Cor 4:11
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    11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;

  • Phil 3:20-21
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    20For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

    21who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, [that it may be] conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.

  • Col 3:4
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    4When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory.

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;

  • 1 Pet 4:1-2
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    1Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

    2that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

  • 2 Cor 1:8-9
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    8For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell [us] in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

    9yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:

  • 1 Cor 15:44
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    44it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual [body] .

  • 1 Tim 6:7-8
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    7for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry anything out;

    8but having food and covering we shall be therewith content.

  • 1 Thess 4:17-18
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    17then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

    18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

  • 2 Cor 6:9
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    9as unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

  • 2 Cor 3:18
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    18But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.

  • Rom 13:14
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    14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof] .

  • 1 Thess 4:15
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    15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.

  • Rom 8:11-12
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    11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

    12So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:

  • Rom 6:4-5
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    4We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

    5For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection;

  • 1 Thess 5:10
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    10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

  • 1 Cor 15:19
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    19If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

  • Rom 8:18
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    18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.

  • 1 John 3:2
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    2Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.