2 Corinthians 5:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

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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  • 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 assuredly 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; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh has spoken it.

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  • 2 Cor 5:1-3
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    1 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.

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

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

  • 1 Cor 15:49-54
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    49 As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's{NU, TR read "we will" instead of "let's"} also bear the image of the heavenly.

    50 Now I say this, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

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

    52 in 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.

    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 5:5-9
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    5 Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

    6 Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

    7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.

    8 We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

    9 Therefore 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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    9 pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

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

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

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

  • 2 Cor 4:16-18
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    16 Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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

    18 while 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.

  • 2 Pet 1:14
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    14 knowing 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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    22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

    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 4:11
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    11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

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

    21 who 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.

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

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    7 But 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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    1 Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

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    8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

    9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

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    44 It 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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    7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.

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

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    17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

    18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.

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    9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

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    18 But 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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    15 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

  • Rom 8:11-12
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    11 But 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.

    12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

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    4 We 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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    10 who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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    19 If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

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    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.