Discovery Box2 Corinthians 5:1 
ContextLiving 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
Context5:4 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.
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.”
