Our Heavenly Dwelling

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. For in this tent (D)we groan, longing to (E)put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on[a] we may not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal (F)may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, (G)who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:3 Some manuscripts putting it off

Absent from the Body and at Home with the Lord

For we know that if our earthly house, the tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed, in this house we groan, because we[a] desire to put on our dwelling from heaven, if indeed, even after we[b] have taken it off,[c] we will not be found naked. For indeed we who are in this tent groan, being burdened for this reason, that[d] we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now the one who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the down payment, the Spirit.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:2 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“desire”) which is understood as causal
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:3 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“have taken off”) which is understood as temporal
  3. 2 Corinthians 5:3 A number of important early manuscripts read “have put it on” here
  4. 2 Corinthians 5:4 Literally “in that”