2 Corinthians 5:1

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 5:16

5:16 So then from now on we acknowledge ³  no one from an outward human point of view. ⁴  Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, ⁵  now we do not know him in that way any longer.

[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.”

[5:16]  ³ tn Grk “we know.”

[5:16]  ⁴ tn Grk “no one according to the flesh.”

[5:16]  ⁵ tn Grk “we have known Christ according to the flesh.”