2 Corinthians 5:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For 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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Οἴδαμεν γὰρ ὅτι ἐὰν ἡ ἐπίγειος ἡμῶν οἰκία τοῦ σκήνους καταλυθῇ, οἰκοδομὴν ἐκ Θεοῦ ἔχομεν, οἰκίαν ἀχειροποίητον, αἰώνιον ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.

Transliteration

Oidamen gar that ean the epigeios of us oikia of the skēnous katalythē, oikodomēn from Theos we echomen, oikian acheiropoiēton, aiōnion in the ouranois.

Grammar Details

• *Oidamen*: perfect active indicative, 1st person plural - we know [completed action with continuing results]
• *gar*: conjunction - for/because [explanatory]
• *ean*: conditional conjunction - if [introducing hypothetical condition]
• *epigeios*: adjective, nominative feminine singular - earthly/terrestrial
• *oikia*: noun, nominative feminine singular - house/dwelling
• *skēnous*: noun, genitive neuter singular - tent/tabernacle [metaphorical for body]
• *katalythē*: aorist passive subjunctive, 3rd person singular - be destroyed/dissolved
• *oikodomēn*: noun, accusative feminine singular - building/edifice
• *Theos*: noun, genitive masculine singular - God
• *echomen*: present active indicative, 1st person plural - we have
• *oikian*: noun, accusative feminine singular - house/dwelling
• *acheiropoiēton*: adjective, accusative feminine singular - not made with hands
• *aiōnion*: adjective, accusative feminine singular - eternal
• *ouranois*: noun, dative masculine plural - heavens

Word Meanings

• *Oidamen*: know/understand/perceive
• *skēnous*: tent/tabernacle/temporary dwelling
• *katalythē*: be destroyed/dissolved/taken down
• *oikodomēn*: building/structure/edifice
• *acheiropoiēton*: not made with hands/not of human construction

Referenced Verses

• 2 Pet 1:13-14 : 13 And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; 14 knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle cometh swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ signified unto me.
• Heb 9:11 : 11 But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
• Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ entered {G1525} not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
• 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;
• 1 John 3:2 : 2 Beloved, 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.
• 2 Cor 5:4 : 4 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.
• Job 4:19 : 19 How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
• 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
• Gen 3:19 : 19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
• 2 Pet 3:11 : 11 Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in [all] holy living and godliness,
• Heb 11:10 : 10 for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
• John 14:2-3 : 2 In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.
• 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
• 1 Cor 15:46-48 : 46 Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual. 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is {G2962} of heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
• Job 19:25-26 : 25 But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth: 26 And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;
• Job 30:22 : 22 Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride [upon it]; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.
• Ps 56:9 : 9 Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me.
• Col 2:11 : 11 in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
• 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For which cause I suffer also these things: yet I am not ashamed; for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto him against that day.
• 1 John 3:14 : 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not {G80} abideth in death.
• 1 John 3:19 : 19 {G2532} Hereby {G5129} shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him:
• 1 John 5:19-20 : 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one. 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• Mark 14:58 : 58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.