If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Parallel translations
- WEB if so be that being clothed we will 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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Quick answer
The hope is to be 'clothed' rather than found 'naked,' that is, to receive the resurrection body and not be left bare. Believers will not be left without a glorified existence.
Overview
Paul continues the clothing metaphor: being 'clothed' means receiving the heavenly body, while 'naked' likely pictures a disembodied or unprepared state. The exact sense is debated among faithful interpreters, but the assurance is clear that believers in Christ will be fully clothed with immortal life, not left exposed.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Gen 3:7–11And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
- Rev 16:15Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
- Rev 3:18I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
- Exod 32:25And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
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