2 Corinthians 5:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 15:53-54 : 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen,“Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
  • 2 Cor 5:2 : 2 For in this earthly house we groan, because we desire to put on our heavenly dwelling,
  • 2 Pet 1:13 : 13 Indeed, as long as I am in this tabernacle, I consider it right to stir you up by way of a reminder,
  • Isa 25:8 : 8 he will swallow up death permanently. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from every face, and remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. Indeed, the LORD has announced it!

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    1Living 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.

    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.

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    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–

    52in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

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

    54Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen,“Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

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    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–

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    9we are persecuted, but not abandoned; we are knocked down, but not destroyed,

    10always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

    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.

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    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

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