2 Corinthians 5:4

New International Version

For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Cross References

Isaiah 25:8

he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. The Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 38:12

Like a shepherd’s tent my house has been pulled down and taken from me. Like a weaver I have rolled up my life, and he has cut me off from the loom; day and night you made an end of me.

Romans 8:23

Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.

1 Corinthians 15:51

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—

2 Corinthians 5:2

Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,

2 Corinthians 5:3

because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.

2 Peter 1:13

I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body,