Our Heavenly Dwelling

5 For we know that if ^(A)the tent that is ^(B)our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, ^(C)a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

² Beloved, we are ^(A)God's children ^(B)now, and what we will be ^(C)has not yet appeared; but we know that ^(D)when he appears^{[a] (E)}we shall be like him, because ^(F)we shall see him as he is.

¹³ I think it right, as long as I am in this ^(A)body,^{[a] (B)}to stir you up by way of reminder, ^14 (C)since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, ^(D)as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

Treasure in Jars of Clay

⁷ But we have this treasure in ^(A)jars of clay, ^(B)to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

²⁴ For Christ has entered, not into holy places ^(A)made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God ^(B)on our behalf.

⁴⁶ But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. ^47 (A)The first man was from the earth, ^(B)a man of dust; ^(C)the second man is from heaven. ⁴⁸ As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, ^(D)so also are those who are of heaven.

² In ^(A)my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that ^(B)I go to prepare a place for you?^{[a] 3} And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you ^(C)to myself, that ^(D)where I am you may be also.

Redemption Through the Blood of Christ

¹¹ But when Christ appeared as a high priest ^(A)of the good things that have come,^[a] then through ^(B)the greater and more perfect tent (^(C)not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)