2 Corinthians 5:4

New Century Version

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.

Cross References

Isaiah 25:8

he will destroy death forever. The Lord God will wipe away every tear from every face. He will take away the shame of his people from the earth. The Lord has spoken.

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.

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, which means our bodies will be made free.

1 Corinthians 15:51

But look! I tell you this secret: We will not all sleep in death, but we will all be changed.

2 Corinthians 5:2

But now we groan in this tent. We want God to give us our heavenly home,

2 Corinthians 5:3

because it will clothe us so we will not be naked.

2 Peter 1:13

I think it is right for me to help you remember as long as I am in this body.