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Text -- 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 (NET)
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Living by Faith, Not by Sight
5:1 For we know that if our earthly house , the tent we live in, is dismantled , we have a building from God , a house not built by human hands , that is eternal in the heavens .
5:2 For in this earthly house we groan , because we desire to put on our heavenly dwelling ,
5:3 if indeed , after we have put on our heavenly house , we will not be found naked .
5:4 For we groan while we are in this tent , since we are weighed down , because we do not want to be unclothed , but clothed , so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life .
5:5 Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God , who gave us the Spirit as a down payment .
5:6 Therefore we are always full of courage , and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord –
5:7 for we live by faith , not by sight .
5:8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord .
5:9 So then whether we are alive or away , we make it our ambition to please him .
5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ , so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body , whether good or evil .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Resurrection |
ESCHATOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, VI-X |
Corinthians, Second Epistle to the |
PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 6 |
Mankind |
Man |
Death |
Immortality |
WISDOM, THE, OF SOLOMON |
Earnest |
Heaven |
HADES |
Love |
Life |
PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 4 |
Building |
IMMORTAL; IMMORTALITY |
GROAN |
Tabernacle |
Body |
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NET Notes: 2Co 5:3 Grk “it”; the referent (the “heavenly dwelling” of the previous verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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NET Notes: 2Co 5:5 Or “first installment,” “pledge,” “deposit” (see the note on the phrase “down payment” in 1:22).
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NET Notes: 2Co 5:6 Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).
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