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2 Corinthians 5:1

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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.

2 Corinthians 7:3

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7:3 I do not say this to condemn you, for I told you before 3  that you are in our hearts so that we die together and live together with you. 4 

2 Corinthians 13:4

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13:4 For indeed he was crucified by reason of weakness, but he lives because of God’s power. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him, because of God’s power toward you.

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 2 Cor 1:4-7.

4 tn The words “with you” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.



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