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2 Corinthians 5:1

James Moffatt - New Testament

I know that if this earthly tent of mine is taken down, I get a home from God, made by no human hands, eternal in the heavens.

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We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him — for we are to see him as he is.

For Christ has not entered a holy place which human hands have made (a mere type of the reality!); he has entered heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

But I possess this treasure in a frail vessel of earth, to show that the transcending power belongs to God, not to myself;

But when Christ arrived as the high priest of the bliss that was to be, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent which no hands had made (no part, that is to say, of the present order),

born to an unscathed, inviolate, unfading inheritance; it is kept in heaven for you,

I do sigh within this tent of mine with heavy anxiety — not that I want to be stripped, no, but to be under the cover of the other, to have my mortal element absorbed by life.

"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple made by hands, and in three days I will build another temple not made by hands.'"

Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour,

in him you have been circumcised with no material circumcision that cuts flesh from the body, but with Christ's own circumcision,

Thus it is that we may be sure we belong to the truth and reassure ourselves

We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.

he was waiting for the City with its fixed foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built.

and this is why I am suffering. Still, I am not ashamed of it; I know whom I have trusted and I am certain he is able to keep what I have put into his hands till the great Day.

And yet the most High does not dwell in houses made by hands. As the prophet says,




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