Verse 4

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.

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.