"For we that are in {this} tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, tha…" — 2 Corinthians 5:4

2 Corinthians 5:4 · KJV

“For we that are in {this} tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.”

— 2 Corinthians 5:4

Verse 3

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

Verse 5

Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing {is} God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 5 — Context

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.

For we that are in {this} tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing {is} God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

Therefore {we are} always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

Cross References

1 Corinthians 15:53-54

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal {must} put on immortality.

2 Corinthians 5:2

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

Isaiah 25:8

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken {it}.

2 Peter 1:13

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