2 Corinthians 5:1

Living by Faith, Not by Sight

5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, ¹  is dismantled, ²  we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:4

5:4 For we groan while we are in this tent, ³  since we are weighed down, ⁴  because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

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¹ sn The expression the tent we live in refers to “our earthly house, our body.” Paul uses the metaphor of the physical body as a house or tent, the residence of the immaterial part of a person.

² tn Or “destroyed.”

³ sn See the note in 5:1 on the phrase the tent we live in.

⁴ tn Or “we are burdened.”