2 Corinthians 5:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For we that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might 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 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
  • 2 Cor 5:2 : 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
  • 2 Pet 1:13 : 13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting [you] in remembrance;
  • Isa 25:8 : 8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it].

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    1¶ 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.

    2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house 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.

    51¶ Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all 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.

    54So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought 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 hath wrought us for the selfsame thing [is] God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

    6Therefore [we are] always confident, 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 confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

    9Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

  • 2 Cor 4:9-12
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    9Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

    10Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

    11For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

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

  • 2 Cor 4:16-18
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    16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.

    17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] 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 shortly I must put off [this] my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

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

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    11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

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    20For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

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    4When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

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    8For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

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    44It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

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    7For we brought nothing into [this] world, [and it is] certain we can carry nothing out.

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    18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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    11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

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