2 Corinthians 5:4

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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."
  • 2 Cor 5:2 : 2 For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;
  • 2 Pet 1:13 : 13 I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;
  • Isa 25:8 : 8 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

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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.

    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.

  • 1 Cor 15:49-54
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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,

    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.

    54But 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."

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    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 4:9-12
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    9pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

    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.

  • 2 Cor 4:16-18
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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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    14knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

  • Rom 8:22-23
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    22For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

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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.

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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.

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    11But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

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    4We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

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