2 Corinthians 5:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the life.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 15:53-54 : 53 for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality; 54 and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up -- to victory;
  • 2 Cor 5:2 : 2 for also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves,
  • 2 Pet 1:13 : 13 and I think right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up in reminding `you',
  • Isa 25:8 : 8 He hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the Lord Jehovah, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For Jehovah hath spoken.

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    1For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,

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    3if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked,

  • 1 Cor 15:49-54
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    49and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.

    50And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;

    51lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;

    52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we -- we shall be changed:

    53for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality;

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    5And He who did work us to this self-same thing `is' God, who also did give to us the earnest of the Spirit;

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    8we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

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    11for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,

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    16wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;

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