2 Corinthians 5:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For we know that, if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

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

Job 30:22

You lift me up on the wind, you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.

Job 4:19

how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.

Psalm 56:9

Then my enemies will retreat in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;

Mark 14:58

“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.’ ”

Acts 7:48

Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with human hands; as the prophet says,

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God’s coworkers, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For while we are in this tent, we groan under our burden because we wish not to be unclothed but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Colossians 2:11

In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision, by the removal of the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;

2 Timothy 1:12

and for this reason I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know the one in whom I have put my trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.

Hebrews 11:10

For he looked forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

Hebrews 9:11

But when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation),

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

1 Peter 1:4

and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,

2 Peter 3:11

Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness,

1 John 3:14

We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brothers and sisters. Whoever does not love abides in death.

1 John 3:19

And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him

1 John 3:2

Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is.