2 Corinthians 5:1

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Living by Faith, Not by Sight For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Pet 1:13-14 : 13 Indeed, as long as I am in this tabernacle, I consider it right to stir you up by way of a reminder, 14 since I know that my tabernacle will soon be removed, because our Lord Jesus Christ revealed this to me.
  • Heb 9:11 : 11 Christ’s Service in the Heavenly Sanctuary But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,
  • Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands– the representation of the true sanctuary– but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 An Eternal Weight of Glory But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.
  • 1 John 3:2 : 2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.
  • 2 Cor 5:4 : 4 For we groan while we are in this tent, since we are weighed down, because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
  • 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
  • 2 Pet 3:11 : 11 Since all these things are to melt away in this manner, what sort of people must we be, conducting our lives in holiness and godliness,
  • Heb 11:10 : 10 For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
  • John 14:2-3 : 2 There are many dwelling places in my Father’s house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you. 3 And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too.
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building.
  • 1 Cor 15:46-48 : 46 However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust, and like the one from heaven, so too those who are heavenly.
  • Job 19:25-26 : 25 As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth. 26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,
  • Job 30:22 : 22 You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.
  • Ps 56:9 : 9 My enemies will turn back when I cry out to you for help; I know that God is on my side.
  • Col 2:11 : 11 In him you also were circumcised– not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 Because of this, in fact, I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, because I know the one in whom my faith is set and I am convinced that he is able to protect what has been entrusted to me until that day.
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.
  • 1 John 3:19 : 19 And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,
  • 1 John 5:19-20 : 19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
  • Mark 14:58 : 58 “We heard him say,‘I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.’”

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Cor 5:2-9
    8 verses
    89%

    2For in this earthly house we groan, because we desire to put on our heavenly dwelling,

    3if indeed, after we have put on our heavenly house, we will not be found naked.

    4For we groan while we are in this tent, since we are weighed down, because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

    5Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

    6Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord–

    7for we live by faith, not by sight.

    8Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

    9So then whether we are alive or away, we make it our ambition to please him.

  • 2 Pet 1:14
    74%

    14since I know that my tabernacle will soon be removed, because our Lord Jesus Christ revealed this to me.

  • Heb 3:4
    73%

    4For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

    17If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

  • 2 Cor 4:16-18
    3 verses
    73%

    16Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

    17For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison

    18because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

  • Heb 13:14
    73%

    14For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

  • Eph 2:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

    22in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 3:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building.

    10According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.

  • Heb 9:11
    72%

    11Christ’s Service in the Heavenly Sanctuary But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

  • Heb 3:6
    72%

    6But Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.

  • Heb 8:2
    71%

    2a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.

  • Phil 3:20
    71%

    20But our citizenship is in heaven– and we also eagerly await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 1 Cor 15:49-51
    3 verses
    70%

    49And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven.

    50Now this is what I am saying, brothers and sisters: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

    51Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed–

  • John 14:2
    70%

    2There are many dwelling places in my Father’s house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you.

  • 1 Cor 15:53
    70%

    53For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

  • 1 Pet 1:4
    70%

    4that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,

  • 2 Cor 4:7
    70%

    7An Eternal Weight of Glory But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

  • Heb 10:21
    70%

    21and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

  • 2 Pet 3:13
    69%

    13But, according to his promise, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness truly resides.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    69%

    15For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

  • 1 Pet 2:5
    69%

    5you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

  • Acts 17:24
    69%

    24The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

  • 2 Cor 5:16
    69%

    16So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.

  • 2 Cor 4:11
    69%

    11For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.

  • 1 Tim 3:15
    68%

    15in case I am delayed, to let you know how people ought to conduct themselves in the household of God, because it is the church of the living God, the support and bulwark of the truth.

  • 1 Cor 6:19
    68%

    19Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

  • 1 John 4:13
    68%

    13By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

  • 2 Cor 3:11
    68%

    11For if what was made ineffective came with glory, how much more has what remains come in glory!

  • Rom 12:5
    68%

    5so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.

  • Heb 9:24
    68%

    24For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands– the representation of the true sanctuary– but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.

  • Eph 5:30
    68%

    30because we are members of his body.

  • Acts 7:48
    68%

    48Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says,

  • 2 Cor 5:13
    68%

    13For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

  • 1 Cor 15:44
    68%

    44it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

  • 2 Cor 5:11
    67%

    11The Message of Reconciliation Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.

  • 2 Pet 3:11
    67%

    11Since all these things are to melt away in this manner, what sort of people must we be, conducting our lives in holiness and godliness,