2 Corinthians 5:1

New Century 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 house for us. It will not be a house made by human hands; instead, it will be a home in heaven that will last forever.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

You will sweat and work hard for your food. Later you will return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and when you die, you will return to the dust.”

Job 30:22

You snatched me up and threw me into the wind and tossed me about in the storm.

Job 4:19

So he puts even more blame on people who live in clay houses, whose foundations are made of dust, who can be crushed like a moth.

Psalm 56:9

On the day I call for help, my enemies will be defeated. I know that God is on my side.

Isaiah 38:12

Like a shepherd’s tent, my home has been pulled down and taken from me. I am finished like the cloth a weaver rolls up and cuts from the loom. In one day you brought me to this end.

Mark 14:58

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

Acts 7:48

“But the Most High does not live in houses that people build with their hands. As the prophet says:

1 Corinthians 3:9

We are God’s workers, working together; you are like God’s farm, God’s house.

2 Corinthians 4:7

We have this treasure from God, but we are like clay jars that hold the treasure. This shows that the great power is from God, not from us.

2 Corinthians 5:4

While we live in this body, we have burdens, and we groan. We do not want to be naked, but we want to be clothed with our heavenly home. Then this body that dies will be fully covered with life.

Colossians 2:11

Also in Christ you had a different kind of circumcision, a circumcision not done by hands. It was through Christ’s circumcision, that is, his death, that you were made free from the power of your sinful self.

2 Timothy 1:12

I am suffering now because I tell the Good News, but I am not ashamed, because I know Jesus, the One in whom I have believed. And I am sure he is able to protect what he has trusted me with until that day.

Hebrews 11:10

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

Hebrews 9:11

But when Christ came as the high priest of the good things we now have, he entered the greater and more perfect tent. It is not made by humans and does not belong to this world.

Hebrews 9:24

Christ did not go into the Most Holy Place made by humans, which is only a copy of the real one. He went into heaven itself and is there now before God to help us.

1 Peter 1:4

Now we hope for the blessings God has for his children. These blessings, which cannot be destroyed or be spoiled or lose their beauty, are kept in heaven for you.

2 Peter 3:11

In that way everything will be destroyed. So what kind of people should you be? You should live holy lives and serve God,

1 John 3:14

We know we have left death and have come into life because we love each other. Whoever does not love is still dead.

1 John 3:19

This is the way we know that we belong to the way of truth. When our hearts make us feel guilty, we can still have peace before God. God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and 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, because we will see him as he really is.