2 Corinthians 5:1 BSB

2 Corinthians 5:1

Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

BSB

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ASV

For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

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.

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Commentary

5 voices

Origen of Alexandria

ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.6.6 (253)

In regard to our bodily nature we must understand that there is not one body which we now use in lowliness and corruption and weakness and a different one which we are to use hereafter in incorruption and power and glory, but that this same body, having cast off the weaknesses of its present existence, will be transformed into a thing of glory and made spiritual. The result is that what was a vessel of dishonor shall itself be purified and become a vessel of honor and a habitation of blessedness.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He looks upon it as a house, or habitation, a dwelling-place, a resting-place, a hiding-place, our Father's house, where there are many mansions, and our everlasting home. It is a house in the heavens, in that high and holy place which as far excels all the palaces of this earth as the heavens are high above the earth.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Naked we came into this world, and naked shall we go out of it. But, [2.] Gracious souls are not found naked in the other world; no, they are clothed with garments of praise, with robes of righteousness and glory. They shall be delivered out of all their troubles, and shall have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, Rev. vii.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For we know - We who are engaged in the work of the gospel ministry. Paul is giving a reason why he and his fellow-laborers did not become weary and faint in their work. The reason was, that they knew that even if their body should die, they had an inheritance reserved for them in heaven. The expression “we know” is the language of strong and unwavering assurance. They had no doubt on the subject.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Its wooden frame and curtains wore out in course of time when Israel dwelt in Canaan, and a fixed temple was substituted for it. The temple and the tabernacle in all essentials were one; there was the same ark, the same cloud of glory. Such is the relation between the "earthly" body and the resurrection body.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Οἴδαμεν	Oidamen	We know
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
ἐὰν	ean	if	G1437 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
ἐπίγειος	epigeios	earthly	G1919 →
ἡμῶν	hēmōn	of us	G3165 →
οἰκία	oikia	house	G3614 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
σκήνους	skēnous	tent	G4636 →
καταλυθῇ,	kataluthēa	shall be destroyed,	G2647 →
οἰκοδομὴν	oikodomēn	a building	G3619 →
ἐκ	ek	from	G1537 →
θεοῦ	theou	God	G2316 →
ἔχομεν,	echomen	we have,	G2192 →
οἰκίαν	oikian	a house	G3614 →
ἀχειροποίητον	acheiropoiēton	not made with hands	G886 →
αἰώνιον	aiōnion	eternal	G166 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τοῖς	tois	the	G3588 →
οὐρανοῖς.	ouranois	heavens.	G3772 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 John 3:2
Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as…
leads to
- Philippians 3:21
  who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.
- Colossians 3:4
  When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
- 1 Corinthians 13:12
  Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
- 2 Corinthians 3:18
  And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
- Psalms 17:15
  As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.
Through
2 Corinthians 4:7
Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 3:5–6
  Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
- Ephesians 2:8–9
  For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,
- 1 Corinthians 1:28
  He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About 2 Corinthians

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 2 Corinthians