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2 Corinthians 5:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 Corinthians 5:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 For therefore we sigh, desiring to be [a]clothed with our house, which is from [b]heaven.
3 [c]Because that if we be clothed, we shall not be found (A)naked.
4 For indeed we that are in this tabernacle, sigh and are burdened because we would not be unclothed, but would be clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
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- 2 Corinthians 5:2 He calleth the glory of immortality, which we shall be as it were clothed with, a garment.
- 2 Corinthians 5:2 Heavenly, not that the substance of it is heavenly, but for the glory of it.
- 2 Corinthians 5:3 An exposition of the former saying: We do not without cause, desire to be clad with the heavenly house, that is, with that everlasting and immortal glory, as with a garment: for when we depart hence, we shall not remain naked, having once cast off the covering of this body, but we shall take our bodies again, which shall put on as it were another garment besides: and therefore we sigh not for the weariness of this life, but for the desire of a better life. Neither is this desire in vain, for we are made to that life, the pledge whereof we have, even the Spirit of adoption.
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