2 Corinthians 5:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

Job 30:22

Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.

Job 4:19

How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

Psalm 56:9

When I send up my cry to you, my haters will be turned back; I am certain of this, for God is with me.

Isaiah 38:12

My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

Mark 14:58

He said in our hearing, I will put an end to this Temple which is made with hands, and in three days I will make another without hands.

Acts 7:48

But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;

2 Corinthians 5:4

For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.

Colossians 2:11

In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

2 Timothy 1:12

And for which I undergo these things: but I have no feeling of shame. For I have knowledge of him in whom I have faith, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have given into his care till that day.

Hebrews 11:10

For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God.

Hebrews 9:11

But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.

1 Peter 1:4

And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,

2 Peter 3:11

Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness,

1 John 3:14

We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

1 John 3:19

In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,

1 John 3:2

My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.