2 Corinthians 5 · a question people ask
"if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God" (5:1). What does the chapter say about that?
It says it in its own words: "For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens." (5:1). It says "we groan" (5:2), "not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life." (5:4), and that God "also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit" (5:5). The chapter doesn't explain the tent, the building, being clothed or being "naked" (5:3) beyond these words. Christians have read 5:1-10 in more than one way, often alongside other passages; these notes give the chapter's words and choose no reading.
The verses
“For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, if indeed being clothed, we will not be found naked. For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.”