2 Corinthians 5:4

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

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.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 5:2

But now we are tired of this body. We want God to give us our heavenly home.

Isaiah 25:8

But death will be destroyed forever. And the Lord GOD will wipe away every tear from every face. In the past, all of his people were sad, but God will take away that sadness from the earth. All of this will happen because the Lord said it would.

2 Peter 1:13

While I am still living here on earth, I think it is right for me to remind you of them.

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.

Romans 8:23

Not only the world, but we also have been waiting with pain inside us. We have the Spirit as the first part of God’s promise. So we are waiting for God to finish making us his own children. I mean we are waiting for our bodies to be made free.

1 Corinthians 15:51

But listen, I tell you this secret: We will not all die, but we will all be changed.

2 Corinthians 5:3

It will clothe us and we will not be naked.