2 Corinthians 5:1-5
Context5:1 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, 5:3 if indeed, after we have put on 5 our heavenly house, 6 we will not be found naked. 5:4 For we groan while we are in this tent, 7 since we are weighed down, 8 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 9 is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment. 10
[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.
[5:2] 3 tn Or “dwelling place.”
[5:2] 4 tn Or “to be clothed with.”
[5:3] 5 tc ‡ Some
[5:3] 6 tn Grk “it”; the referent (the “heavenly dwelling” of the previous verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[5:4] 7 sn See the note in 5:1 on the phrase the tent we live in.
[5:4] 8 tn Or “we are burdened.”
[5:5] 9 tn Grk “for this very thing.”
[5:5] 10 tn Or “first installment,” “pledge,” “deposit” (see the note on the phrase “down payment” in 1:22).