2 Corinthians 5:1

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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.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return."

Job 30:22

You have lifted me up, and, placing me as if on the wind, you have thrown me down powerfully.

Job 4:19

How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?

Psalm 56:9

Rise up, my glory. Rise up, psaltery and harp. I will arise in early morning.

Isaiah 38:12

My longevity has been taken away; it has been folded up and taken from me, like the tent of a shepherd. My life has been cut off, as if by a weaver. While I was still beginning, he cut me off. From morning until evening, you have marked out my limits.

Mark 14:58

"For we heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple, made with hands, and within three days I will build another, not made with hands.' "

Acts 7:48

Yet the Most High does not live in houses built by hands, just as he said through the prophet:

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God's assistants. You are God's cultivation; you are God's construction.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we hold this treasure in earthen vessels, so that what is sublime may be of the power of God, and not of us.

2 Corinthians 5:4

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.

Colossians 2:11

In him also, you have been circumcised with a circumcision not made by hand, not by the despoiling of the body of flesh, but by the circumcision of Christ.

2 Timothy 1:12

For this reason, I also suffer these things. But I am not confounded. For I know in whom I have believed, and I am certain that he has the power to preserve what was entrusted to me, unto that day.

Hebrews 11:10

For he was awaiting a city having firm foundations, whose designer and builder is God.

Hebrews 9:11

But Christ, standing as the High Priest of future good things, through a greater and more perfect tabernacle, one not made by hand, that is, not of this creation,

Hebrews 9:24

For Jesus did not enter by means of holy things made with hands, mere examples of the true things, but he entered into Heaven itself, so that he may appear now before the face of God for us.

1 Peter 1:4

unto an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance, which is reserved for you in heaven.

2 Peter 3:11

Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what kind of people ought you to be? In behavior and in piety, be holy,

1 John 3:14

We know that we have passed from death to life. For we love as brothers. Whoever does not love, abides in death.

1 John 3:19

In this way, we will know that we are of the truth, and we will commend our hearts in his sight.

1 John 3:2

Most beloved, we are now the sons of God. But what we shall be then has not yet appeared. We know that when he does appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.