2 Corinthians 5:2

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Rom 8:23 : 23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
  • 1 Cor 15:53-54 : 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
  • Rom 7:24 : 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
  • 2 Cor 5:3-4 : 3 if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked. 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.
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
  • 1 Pet 1:6-7 : 6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials, 7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ--

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    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.

  • 2 Cor 5:1
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    1For 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.

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

    21who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

  • 1 Cor 15:48-53
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    48As 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.

    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,

    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 will be changed.

    53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

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    16Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

    17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

    18while we don't look 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.

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    22For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

    23Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

  • 2 Pet 1:14
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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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    13But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

    14Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.

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    11Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

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    14For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

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    2Beloved, 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.

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    10always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

    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.

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

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    21in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

    22in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

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

  • 1 Thess 2:17
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    17But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

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    8But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.

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    4to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

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    23But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

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    4When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

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    7But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

  • 2 Cor 3:11-12
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    11For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

    12Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

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    13looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;

  • 1 Cor 15:19
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    19If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

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    12For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

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    18Therefore comfort one another with these words.

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

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    18But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

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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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    18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

    19For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.