2 Corinthians 5:1

World English Bible (2000)

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

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  • 2 Pet 1:13-14 : 13 I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you; 14 knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
  • Heb 9:11 : 11 But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
  • Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
  • 1 John 3:2 : 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
  • 2 Cor 5:4 : 4 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
  • 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • 2 Pet 3:11 : 11 Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
  • Heb 11:10 : 10 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
  • John 14:2-3 : 2 In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. 3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.
  • 1 Cor 15:46-48 : 46 However that which is spiritual isn't first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual. 47 The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
  • Job 19:25-26 : 25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. 26 After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,
  • Job 30:22 : 22 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
  • Ps 56:9 : 9 Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.
  • Col 2:11 : 11 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.
  • 1 John 3:19 : 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
  • 1 John 5:19-20 : 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. 20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
  • Mark 14:58 : 58 "We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'"

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    2For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;

    3if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.

    4For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

    5Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

    6Therefore, we are always confident and know 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 courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

    9Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

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    14knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

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    9For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

    10According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

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    11But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

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    6but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

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    2a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

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    49As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's also bear the image of the heavenly.

    50Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

    51Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

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    2In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

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    16Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

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    11For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

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    19Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

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    13By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

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    30because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

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    11Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,