2 Corinthians 5:1

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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,¹ is dismantled,² we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:4

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5:4 For we groan while we are in this tent,³ since we are weighed down,⁴ because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

[5:1] ¹sn 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] ²tn Or “destroyed.”

[5:4] ³sn See the note in 5:1 on the phrase the tent we live in.

[5:4] ⁴tn Or “we are burdened.”