2 Corinthians 5:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Our bodies are like tents that we live in here on earth. But when these tents are destroyed, we know that God will give each of us a place to live. These homes will not be buildings that someone has made, but they are in heaven and will last for ever.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

You will have to sweat to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil.”

Job 30:22

stirring up a storm to toss me about.

Job 4:19

Humans are formed from clay and are fragile as moths, so what chance do you have?

Psalm 56:9

When I pray, LORD God, my enemies will retreat, because I know for certain that you are with me.

Isaiah 38:12

My life was taken from me like the tent that a shepherd pulls up and moves. You cut me off like thread from a weaver's loom; you make a wreck of me day and night.

Mark 14:58

“We heard him say he would tear down this temple that we built. He also claimed that in three days he would build another one without any help.”

Acts 7:48

But the Most High God doesn't live in houses made by humans. It is just as the prophet said, when he spoke for the Lord,

1 Corinthians 3:9

Apollos and I work together for God, and you are God's garden and God's building.

2 Corinthians 4:7

We are like clay jars in which this treasure is stored. The real power comes from God and not from us.

2 Corinthians 5:4

These tents we now live in are like a heavy burden, and we groan. But we don't do this just because we want to leave these bodies that will die. It is because we want to change them for bodies that will never die.

Colossians 2:11

Christ has also taken away your selfish desires, just as circumcision removes flesh from the body.

2 Timothy 1:12

That's why I am suffering now. But I am not ashamed! I know the one I have faith in, and I am sure that he can guard until the last day what he has trusted me with.

Hebrews 11:10

Abraham did this, because he was waiting for the eternal city that God had planned and built.

Hebrews 9:11

Christ came as the high priest of the good things that are now here. He also went into a much better tent that wasn't made by humans and that doesn't belong to this world.

Hebrews 9:24

This is why Christ did not go into a tent that had been made by humans and was only a copy of the real one. Instead, he went into heaven and is now there with God to help us.

1 Peter 1:4

God has something stored up for you in heaven, where it will never decay or be ruined or disappear.

2 Peter 3:11

Everything will be destroyed. So you should serve and honour God by the way you live.

1 John 3:14

Our love for each other proves that we have gone from death to life. But if you don't love each other, you are still under the power of death.

1 John 3:19

When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God.

1 John 3:2

My dear friends, we are already God's children, though what we will be hasn't yet been seen. But we do know that when Christ returns, we will be like him, because we will see him as he truly is.