2 Corinthians 5:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that mortality might be swallowed up by life.

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  • 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 has put on incorruption, and this mortal has 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 with our dwelling which is from heaven:
  • 2 Pet 1:13 : 13 Yes, I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;
  • Isa 25:8 : 8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; and the reproach of His people He will take away from all the earth: for the LORD has spoken.

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

    2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our dwelling which is from heaven:

    3If indeed, 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 man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

    50Now this I say, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

    51Behold, I tell 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 trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will 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 has put on incorruption, and this mortal has 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 who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

    6Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

    7For we walk by faith, not by sight.

    8We are confident, I say, and prefer to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

    9Therefore we strive, that whether present or absent, we may be pleasing to him.

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

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

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

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

  • 2 Cor 4:16-18
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    16For this reason we do not lose heart; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

    17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works 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 temporary; 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 tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.

  • Rom 8:22-23
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    22For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

    23And not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

  • 1 Cor 4:11
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    11Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.

  • Phil 3:20-21
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    20For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

    21Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself.

  • Col 3:4
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    4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then you also shall appear with him in glory.

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us.

  • 1 Pet 4:1-2
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    1Since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind: for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

    2That he should no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

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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 beyond measure, above strength, so much that we despaired even of life.

    9But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

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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.

  • 1 Tim 6:7-8
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    7For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

    8And having food and clothing, let us be content with that.

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

    18Therefore, comfort one another with these words.

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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 faces beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

  • Rom 13:14
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    14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

  • 1 Thess 4:15
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    15For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep.

  • Rom 8:11-12
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    11But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

    12Therefore, brothers, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

  • Rom 6:4-5
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    4Therefore, we are buried with Him by baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

    5For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be 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 in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most miserable.

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

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    2Beloved, now we are the children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be: but we know that when he appears, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.