2 Corinthians 5:1

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

We know that our body—the tent we live in here on earth—will be destroyed. But when that happens, God will have a home for us to live in. It will not be the kind of home people build here. It will be a home in heaven that will continue forever.

Cross References

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, now we are children of God. We have not yet been shown what we will be in the future. But we know that when Christ comes again, we will be like him. We will see him just as he is.

Hebrews 9:24

Christ went into the Most Holy Place. But it was not the man-made one, which is only a copy of the real one. He went into heaven, and he is there now before God to help us.

2 Corinthians 4:7

We have this treasure from God, but we are only like clay jars that hold the treasure. This is to show that the amazing power we have is from God, not from us.

Hebrews 9:11

But Christ has already come to be the high priest. He is the high priest of the good things we now have. But Christ does not serve in a place like the tent that those other priests served in. He serves in a better place. Unlike that tent, this one is perfect. It was not made by anyone here on earth. It does not belong to this world.

Job 4:19

So surely people are worse! They live in houses of clay built on dust. They can be crushed as easily as a moth!

1 Peter 1:4

Now we wait to receive the blessings God has for his children. These blessings are kept for you in heaven. They cannot be ruined or be destroyed or lose their beauty.

2 Corinthians 5:4

While we live in this tent, we have burdens and so we complain. I don’t mean that we want to remove this tent, but we want to be clothed with our heavenly home. Then this body that dies will be covered with life.

Genesis 3:19

You will work hard for your food, until your face is covered with sweat. You will work hard until the day you die, and then you will become dust again. I used dust to make you, and when you die, you will become dust again.”

Mark 14:58

“We heard this man say, ‘I will destroy this Temple built by human hands. And three days later, I will build another Temple not made by human hands.’”

2 Peter 3:11

Everything will be destroyed in this way. So what kind of people should you be? Your lives should be holy and devoted to God.

Colossians 2:11

In Christ you had a different kind of circumcision, one that was not done by human hands. That is, you were made free from the power of your sinful self. That is the kind of circumcision Christ does.

1 John 3:19

That’s how we know we belong to the way of truth. And when our hearts make us feel guilty, we can still have peace before God, because God is greater than our hearts. He knows everything.

1 John 3:14

We know that we have left death and have come into life. We know this because we love each other as brothers and sisters. Anyone who does not love is still in death.

Hebrews 11:10

Abraham was waiting for the city that has real foundations. He was waiting for the city that is planned and built by God.

1 Corinthians 3:9

We are workers together for God, and you are like a farm that belongs to God. And you are a house that belongs to God.

Psalm 56:9

I know that when l call for help, my enemies will turn and run. I know that because God is with me!

Job 30:22

You let the strong wind blow me away. You throw me around in the storm.

2 Timothy 1:12

And I suffer now because of that work. But I am not ashamed, because I know the one I have put my trust in. And I am sure that he is able to protect what I have put into his care until that Day.

Isaiah 38:12

My home, my shepherd’s tent, is being pulled down and taken from me. I am finished like the cloth someone rolls up and cuts from the loom. You ended my life in such a short time.

Acts 7:48

“But the Most High God does not live in houses built by human hands. This is what the prophet writes: