2 Corinthians 5:1

Our Heavenly Dwelling

1 For we know that if a our earthly 1 house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house b not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

  1. Cross References
    Job 4:19
    How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before a moth?
    1 Corinthians 15:47
    The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.
    2 Corinthians 4:7
    But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
  2. Cross References
    Mark 14:58
    "We heard Him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.'"
    Acts 7:48
    However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says:
    Hebrews 9:11
    But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.
    Hebrews 9:24
    For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.
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