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2 Corinthians 5:1-2
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Living by Faith, Not by Sight

5 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in,[a] is dismantled,[b] we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this earthly house[c] we groan, because we desire to put on[d] our heavenly dwelling,

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  1. 2 Corinthians 5:1 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.
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:1 tn Or “destroyed.”
  3. 2 Corinthians 5:2 tn Or “dwelling place.”
  4. 2 Corinthians 5:2 tn Or “to be clothed with.”
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