2 Corinthians 5:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

For we knowe that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed, we haue a building giuen of God, that is, an house not made with handes, but eternall in the heauens.

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  • 2 Pet 1:13-14 : 13 For I thinke it meete as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stirre you vp by putting you in remembrance, 14 Seeing I knowe that the time is at hand that I must lay downe this my tabernacle, euen as our Lord Iesus Christ hath shewed me.
  • Heb 9:11 : 11 But Christ being come an high Priest of good things to come, by a greater and a more perfect Tabernacle, not made with handes, that is, not of this building,
  • Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ is not entred into ye holy places that are made with hands, which are similitudes of ye true Sanctuarie: but is entred into very heauen, to appeare now in ye sight of God for vs,
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we haue this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellencie of that power might be of God, and not of vs.
  • 1 John 3:2 : 2 Dearely beloued, nowe are we the sonnes of God, but yet it is not made manifest what we shall be: and we know that when he shalbe made manifest, we shalbe like him: for we shall see him as he is.
  • 2 Cor 5:4 : 4 For in deede we that are in this tabernacle, sigh and are burdened, because we would not be vnclothed, but would be clothed vpon, that mortalitie might be swalowed vp of life.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 Howe much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?
  • 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 To an inheritance immortall and vndefiled, and that withereth not, reserued in heauen for vs,
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread, till thou returne to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou returne.
  • 2 Pet 3:11 : 11 Seeing therefore that all these thinges must be dissolued, what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation and godlinesse,
  • Heb 11:10 : 10 For he looked for a citie hauing a foundation, whose builder and maker is God.
  • John 14:2-3 : 2 In my Fathers house are many dwelling places: if it were not so, I would haue tolde you: I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go to prepare a place for you, I wil come againe, and receiue you vnto my selfe, that where I am, there may ye be also.
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we together are Gods labourers: yee are Gods husbandrie, and Gods building.
  • 1 Cor 15:46-48 : 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spirituall: but that which is naturall, and afterward that which is spirituall. 47 The first man is of the earth, earthly: the second man is the Lord from heauen. 48 As is the earthly, such are they that are earthly: and as is the heauenly, such are they also that are heauenly.
  • Job 19:25-26 : 25 For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth. 26 And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
  • Job 30:22 : 22 Thou takest me vp & causest mee to ride vpo the winde, & makest my strength to faile.
  • Ps 56:9 : 9 When I cry, then mine enemies shal turne backe: this I know, for God is with me.
  • Col 2:11 : 11 In whome also yee are circumcised with circumcision made without handes, by putting off the sinfull body of the flesh, through the circumcision of Christ,
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For the which cause I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed: for I knowe whom I haue beleeued, and I am persuaded that he is able to keepe that which I haue committed to him against that day.
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 We know that we are translated from death vnto life, because we loue the brethren: he that loueth not his brother, abideth in death.
  • 1 John 3:19 : 19 For thereby we know that we are of the trueth, and shal before him assure our hearts.
  • 1 John 5:19-20 : 19 We knowe that we are of God, and this whole world lieth in wickednesse. 20 But we know that that Sone of God is come, & hath giue vs a mind to know him, which is true: & we are in him that is true, that is, in that his Sone Iesus Christ: this same is that very God, and that eternal life.
  • Mark 14:58 : 58 We hearde him say, I will destroy this Temple made with hands, & within three daies I will builde another, made without hands.

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    2For therefore we sighe, desiring to be clothed with our house, which is from heauen.

    3Because that if we be clothed, we shal not be found naked.

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    5And he that hath created vs for this thing, is God, who also hath giuen vnto vs the earnest of the Spirit.

    6Therefore we are always bolde, though we knowe that whiles we are at home in the bodie, we are absent from the Lord.

    7(For we walke by faith, and not by sight.)

    8Neuerthelesse, we are bolde, and loue rather to remoue out of the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

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    9For we together are Gods labourers: yee are Gods husbandrie, and Gods building.

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