2 Corinthians 5:1 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹ For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ FOR WE know that if the tent which is our earthly home is destroyed (dissolved), we have from God a building, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

Common English Bible

¹ We know that if the tent that we live in on earth is torn down, we have a building from God. It’s a house that isn’t handmade, which is eternal and located in heaven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ For we know that, when our earthly house of this habitation is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

2 Corinthians 5:1 Cross References

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Job 30:22

Thou liftest me up on the wind, thou makest me ride on it, and thou tossest me about in the roar of the storm.

Job 4:19

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.

Psalm 56:9

Then my enemies will be turned back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night thou dost bring me to an end;

Mark 14:58

“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.’ ”

Acts 7:48

Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands; as the prophet says,

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For while we are still in this tent, we sigh with anxiety; not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Colossians 2:11

In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ;

2 Timothy 1:12

and therefore I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.

Hebrews 11:10

For he looked forward to the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Hebrews 9:11

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

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ has entered, not into a sanctuary made with hands, a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

1 Peter 1:4

and to an inheritance which is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,

2 Peter 3:11

Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,

1 John 3:14

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death.

1 John 3:19

By this we shall know that we are of the truth, and reassure our hearts before him

1 John 3:2

Beloved, we are God's children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.