2 Corinthians 5:1-2

Living by Faith, Not by Sight

5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, ¹  is dismantled, ²  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 ³  we groan, because we desire to put on ⁴  our heavenly dwelling,

2 Corinthians 5:8-9

5:8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away ⁵  from the body and at home with the Lord. 5:9 So then whether we are alive ⁶  or away, we make it our ambition to please him. ⁷ 

[5:1]  ¹ sn The expression the tent we live in refers to “our earthly house, our body.” Paul uses the metaphor of the physical body as a house or tent, the residence of the immaterial part of a person.

[5:1]  ² tn Or “destroyed.”

[5:2]  ³ tn Or “dwelling place.”

[5:2]  ⁴ tn Or “to be clothed with.”

[5:8]  ⁵ tn Or “be absent.”

[5:9]  ⁷ tn Grk “whether we are at home” [in the body]; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).

[5:9]  ⁸ tn Grk “to be pleasing to him.”