2 Corinthians 5:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ 3 For whether we be transported in mind, it is to God; or whether we be sober, it is for you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ For while we are still in this tent, we groan under the burden and sigh deeply (weighed down, depressed, oppressed)–not that we want to put off the body (the clothing of the spirit), but rather that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal (our dying body) may be swallowed up by life [after the resurrection].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

Common English Bible

⁴ Yes, while we are in this tent we groan, because we are weighed down. We want to be dressed not undressed, so that what is dying can be swallowed up by life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Then too, we who are in this tabernacle groan under the burden, because we do not want to be stripped, but rather to be clothed from above, so that what is mortal may be absorbed by life.

2 Corinthians 5:4 Cross References

Isaiah 25:8

You have hoped in the Lord for evermore, in the Lord God mighty for ever.

Isaiah 38:12

0 O Lord, save me, and we will sing our psalms all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

Romans 8:23

1 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us?

1 Corinthians 15:51

On the first day of the week let every one of you put apart with himself, laying up what it shall well please him; that when I come, the collections be not then to be made.

2 Corinthians 5:2

1 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we use persuasion to men; but to God we are manifest. And I trust also that in your consciences we are manifest.

2 Corinthians 5:3

2 We commend not ourselves again to you, but give you occasion to glory in our behalf; that you may have somewhat to answer them who glory in face, and not in heart.

2 Peter 1:13

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers, who shall bring in sects of perdition, and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction.