2 Corinthians 5:1

New King James Version

For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, 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 you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.”

Job 30:22

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

Job 4:19

How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before a moth?

Psalm 56:9

When I cry out to You, Then my enemies will turn back; This I know, because God is for me.

Isaiah 38:12

My life span is gone, Taken from me like a shepherd’s tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me.

Mark 14:58

“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this temple 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 God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building.

2 Corinthians 4:7

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

2 Corinthians 5:4

For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may 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 this 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 what I have committed to Him until that Day.

Hebrews 11:10

for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Hebrews 9:11

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

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, 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

Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons 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 brethren. He who does not love his brother abides 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 we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.