2 Corinthians 5:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • Rom 8:23 : 23 And not onely the creature, but we also which haue the first fruites of the Spirit, euen we doe sigh in our selues, waiting for the adoption, euen the redemption of our body.
  • 1 Cor 15:53-54 : 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortall must put on immortalitie. 54 So when this corruptible hath put on incorruption, and this mortall hath put on immortalitie, then shalbe brought to passe the saying that is written, Death is swallowed vp into victorie.
  • Rom 7:24 : 24 O wretched man that I am, who shall deliuer me from the body of this death!
  • 2 Cor 5:3-4 : 3 Because that if we be clothed, we shal not be found naked. 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.
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 For I am distressed betweene both, desiring to be loosed and to be with Christ, which is best of all.
  • 1 Pet 1:6-7 : 6 Wherein yee reioyce, though nowe for a season (if neede require) yee are in heauinesse, through manifolde tentations, 7 That the triall of your faith, being much more precious then golde that perisheth (though it be tried with fire) might bee founde vnto your praise, and honour and glorie at the appearing of Iesus Christ:

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  • 2 Cor 5:3-9
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    3Because that if we be clothed, we shal not be found naked.

    4For 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.

    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.

    9Wherefore also we couet, that both dwelling at home, and remouing from home, we may be acceptable to him.

  • 2 Cor 5:1
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    1For 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.

  • Phil 3:20-21
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    20But our conuersation is in heauen, from whence also we looke for the Sauiour, euen the Lord Iesus Christ,

    21Who shall change our vile bodie, that it may be fashioned like vnto his glorious body, according to the working, whereby hee is able euen to subdue all things vnto him selfe.

  • 1 Cor 15:48-53
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    48As is the earthly, such are they that are earthly: and as is the heauenly, such are they also that are heauenly.

    49And as we haue borne the image of the earthly, so shall we beare the image of the heauenly.

    50This say I, brethren, that flesh & blood cannot inherite the kingdome of God, neither doeth corruption inherite incorruption.

    51Behold, I shewe you a secret thing, We shall not all sleepe, but we shall all be changed,

    52In a moment, in the twinckling of an eye at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall blow, and the dead shalbe raysed vp incorruptible, and we shalbe changed.

    53For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortall must put on immortalitie.

  • 2 Cor 4:16-18
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    16Therefore we faint not, but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed daily.

    17For our light affliction which is but for a moment, causeth vnto vs a farre most excellent and an eternall waight of glorie:

    18While we looke not on the thinges which are seene, but on the things which are not seene: for the things which are seene, are temporall: but the things which are not seene, are eternall.

  • Rom 8:22-23
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    22For we knowe that euery creature groneth with vs also, and trauaileth in paine together vnto this present.

    23And not onely the creature, but we also which haue the first fruites of the Spirit, euen we doe sigh in our selues, waiting for the adoption, euen the redemption of our body.

  • 2 Pet 1:14
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    14Seeing 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.

  • 2 Pet 3:13-14
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    13But wee looke for newe heauens, and a newe earth, according to his promes, wherein dwelleth righteousnesse.

    14Wherefore, beloued, seeing that yee looke for such thinges, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot and blamelesse.

  • 1 Cor 4:11
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    11Vnto this houre we both hunger, & thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwelling place,

  • Heb 13:14
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    14For here haue we no continuing citie: but we seeke one to come.

  • 1 John 3:2
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    2Dearely 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.

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    10Euery where we beare about in our bodie the dying of the Lorde Iesus, that the life of Iesus might also be made manifest in our bodies.

    11For we which liue, are alwaies deliuered vnto death for Iesus sake, that the life also of Iesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

    12So then death worketh in vs, & life in you.

  • Eph 2:21-22
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    21In whom all the building coupled together, groweth vnto an holy Temple in the Lord.

    22In whom ye also are built together to be the habitation of God by the Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 15:44
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    44It is sowen a naturall body, and is raysed a spirituall body: there is a naturall body, and there is a spirituall body.

  • 1 Thess 2:17
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    17For asmuch, brethren, as we were kept from you for a season, concerning sight, but not in the heart, we enforced the more to see your face with great desire.

  • 1 Tim 6:8
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    8Therefore when wee haue foode and raiment, let vs therewith be content.

  • 1 Pet 1:4
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    4To an inheritance immortall and vndefiled, and that withereth not, reserued in heauen for vs,

  • Phil 1:23
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    23For I am distressed betweene both, desiring to be loosed and to be with Christ, which is best of all.

  • Col 3:4
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    4When Christ which is our life, shall appeare, then shal ye also appeare with him in glory.

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7But we haue this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellencie of that power might be of God, and not of vs.

  • 2 Cor 3:11-12
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    11For if that which should be abolished, was glorious, much more shall that which remaineth, be glorious.

    12Seeing then that we haue such trust, we vse great boldnesse of speach.

  • Titus 2:13
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    13Looking for that blessed hope, and appearing of that glorie of that mightie God, and of our Sauiour Iesus Christ,

  • 1 Cor 15:19
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    19If in this life onely wee haue hope in Christ, we are of all men the most miserable.

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    12For we prayse not our selues againe vnto you, but giue you an occasion to reioyce of vs, that ye may haue to answere against them, which reioyce in the face, and not in the heart.

  • 1 Thess 4:18
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    18Wherefore, comfort your selues one another with these wordes.

  • Eph 5:30
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    30For we are members of his bodie, of his flesh, and of his bones.

  • 2 Cor 3:18
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    18But we al behold as in a mirrour the glory of the Lorde with open face, and are changed into the same image, from glorie to glorie, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

  • John 14:2
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    2In 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.

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    18For I count that the afflictions of this present time are not worthy of the glory, which shalbe shewed vnto vs.

    19For the feruent desire of the creature waiteth when the sonnes of God shalbe reueiled,