2 Corinthians 5:4

Weymouth NT

Yes, we who are in this tent certainly do sigh under our burdens, for we do not wish to lay aside that with which we are now clothed, but to put on more, so that our mortality may be absorbed in Life.

Cross References

Romans 8:23

And more than that, we ourselves, though we possess the Spirit as a foretaste and pledge of the glorious future, yet we ourselves inwardly sigh, as we wait and long for open recognition as sons through the deliverance of our bodies.

1 Corinthians 15:51

I tell you a truth hitherto kept secret: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

2 Corinthians 5:2

For in this one we sigh, because we long to put on over it our dwelling which comes from Heaven–

2 Corinthians 5:3

if indeed having really put on a robe we shall not be found to be unclothed.

2 Peter 1:13

But I think it right, so long as I remain in the body, my present dwelling-place, to arouse you by such reminders.