if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.
Parallel translations
- KJV If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
- BSB because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.
- NKJV if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
- NASB since in fact after putting it on, we will not be found naked.
- NLT For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies.
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Cross-references · 4
- Gen 3:7–11Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.
- Rev 16:15“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”
- Rev 3:18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
- Exod 32:25When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),
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