2 Corinthians 5:1

Modern English Version

We know that if our earthly house, this tent, were to be destroyed, we have an eternal building of God in the heavens, a house not made with hands.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, because out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Job 30:22

You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride on it; You dissolve my success.

Job 4:19

Even more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.

Psalm 56:9

Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call; this I know, that God is for me.

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling is pulled up and removed from me as a shepherd’s tent; I rolled up my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; from day even to night 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 not made with hands.’ ”

Acts 7:48

“However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands. As the prophet says:

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are laborers together with God: You are God’s field; you are God’s building.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, the excellency of the power being from God and not from ourselves.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we wish to be unclothed, but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal might be swallowed up by life.

Colossians 2:11

In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

2 Timothy 1:12

For these things I suffer, but 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 was looking for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Hebrews 9:11

But Christ, when He came as a High Priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ did not enter holy places made with hands, which are patterned after the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

1 Peter 1:4

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that does not fade away, kept in heaven for you,

2 Peter 3:11

Seeing then that all these things are to be destroyed, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,

1 John 3:14

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

1 John 3:19

By this we know that we are of the truth, and shall reassure our hearts before Him.

1 John 3:2

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.