2 Corinthians 5:1

The English Standar Version

For we know that if the tent, which is our earthly home, 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, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for 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 dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.

Psalm 56:9

Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that[4] 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 by hands, as the prophet says,

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened -- not that we would be unclothed, but that we would 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 circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

2 Timothy 1:12

which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.[3]

Hebrews 11:10

For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.

Hebrews 9:11

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come,[5] then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

1 Peter 1:4

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

2 Peter 3:11

Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,

1 John 3:14

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.

1 John 3:19

By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him;

1 John 3:2

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears[1] we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.