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2 Corinthians 5:1-2

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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. 5:2 For in this earthly house 3  we groan, because we desire to put on 4  our heavenly dwelling,

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 tn Or “dwelling place.”

4 tn Or “to be clothed with.”



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