2 Corinthians 5:1

Lighthouse Bible 2006

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

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return to the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and to dust shall you return.

Job 30:22

You lift me up to the wind; you cause me to be driven before it, and dissolve my substance.

Job 4:19

How much less in those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

Psalm 56:9

When I cry unto you, then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

Isaiah 38:12

My years are departed, and are removed from me like a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off my life like a weaver: he will cut me off with wasting sickness: from day even to night will you make an end of me.

Mark 14:58

We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

Acts 7:48

However the most High does not dwell in temples made with hands; as the prophet says,

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are laborers together with God: you are God’s cultivated field, you are God’s building.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For we who are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not that we would be unclothed, but clothed, that mortality might be swallowed up in life.

Colossians 2:11

In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

2 Timothy 1:12

For which reason I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him until that day.

Hebrews 11:10

For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Hebrews 9:11

But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ has not entered into the sanctuary made with hands, which is a representation of the true one; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

1 Peter 1:4

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,

2 Peter 3:11

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conduct and godliness,

1 John 3:14

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother remains in death.

1 John 3:19

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

1 John 3:2

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.