"For we know that if our earthly house of {this} tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made …" — 2 Corinthians 5:1

2 Corinthians 5:1 · KJV

“For we know that if our earthly house of {this} tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”

— 2 Corinthians 5:1

Verse 2

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

2 Corinthians 5 — Context

For we know that if our earthly house of {this} tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

Cross References

Job 19:25-26

For I know {that} my redeemer liveth, and {that} he shall stand at the latter {day} upon the earth:

1 John 3:2

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

2 Peter 1:13-14

Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting {you} in remembrance;

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, {which are} the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

1 Corinthians 15:46-48

Howbeit that {was} not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

John 14:2-3

In my Father's house are many mansions: if {it were} not {so}, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Hebrews 11:10

For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker {is} God.