2 Corinthians 5:1

Even if the body ('earthly tent') dies, believers have an eternal, God-made dwelling in heaven. Death is not loss but gain for the Christian.

Cross-references · 23

• Job 19:25–26For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
• 1 Jn 3:2Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
• 2 Pet 1:13–14Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
• 2 Cor 4:7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
• Heb 9:24For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
• 1 Cor 15:46–48Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
• John 14:2–3In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
• Heb 11:10For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
• Heb 9:11But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
• Job 4:19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
• 1 Pet 1:4To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
• 2 Cor 5:4For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
• Mark 14:58We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
• Gen 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
• 1 Jn 3:14We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
• 2 Pet 3:11Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
• Job 30:22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
• Col 2:11In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
• 1 Cor 3:9For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
• 1 Jn 3:19And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
• 1 Jn 5:19–20And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
• 2 Tim 1:12For the which cause 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 that which I have committed unto him against that day.
• Ps 56:9When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

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