Cross References

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2 Corinthians 5:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

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Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed.  We know that when he appears,  we will be like him  because we will see him as he is.


For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model  of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that he might now appear in the presence of God for us.


Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power  may be from God and not from us.


But Christ has appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come.  In the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands (that is, not of this creation  ),


how much more those who dwell in clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth!


and into an inheritance that is imperishable,  undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven  for you.


Indeed, we groan while we are in this tent, burdened as we are, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed, so that mortality  may be swallowed up by life.


You will eat bread  by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.’


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


Since all these things are to be dissolved in this way, it is clear what sort of people you should be in holy conduct and godliness


You were also circumcised in him with a circumcision not done with hands, by putting off the body of flesh,  in the circumcision of Christ,


This is how we will know that we belong to the truth  and will reassure our hearts before him


We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.


For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.


For we are God’s co-workers.  You are God’s field, God’s building.


You lift me up on the wind and make me ride it; you scatter me in the storm.


and that is why I suffer  these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to guard what has been entrusted to me  , until that day.


My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; he cuts me off from the loom. By nightfall  you make an end of me.


but the Most High does not dwell in sanctuaries made with hands, as the prophet says:





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