2 Corinthians 5:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

2 Corinthians 5:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 15:53-54
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. …
2 Corinthians 5:2
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
Isaiah 25:8
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
2 Peter 1:13
Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

Topics

Body Creation Dead (people)Death Dying God Immortality Life

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

The apostle in these verses pursues the argument of the former chapter, concerning the grounds of their courage and patience under afflictions. And, I. He mentions their expectation, and desire, and assurance, of eternal happiness after death, 2 Cor. 5:1-5. Observe particularly, 1. The believer’s expectation of eternal happiness after death, 2 Cor. 5:1. He does not only know, or is well assured by…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. For--resuming 2Co 5:2. being burdened: not for that--rather, “in that we desire not to have ourselves unclothed (of our present body), but clothed upon (with our heavenly body). that mortality, &c.--rather, “that what is mortal (our mortal part) may be swallowed up of (absorbed and transformed into) life.” Believers shrink from, not the consequences, but the mere act of dying; especially as bel…