Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

2 Corinthians 5:1

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 5 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, should be torn down,*+ we are to have a building from God, a house not made with hands,+ everlasting in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:1

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 5 For we know that if our earthly house,+ this tent,+ should be dissolved,+ we are to have a building from God, a house not made with hands,+ everlasting+ in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:1

The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
- 5 οἴδαμεν We have known γὰρ for ὅτι that ἐὰν if ever ἡ the ἐπίγειος earthly ἡμῶν of us οἰκία house τοῦ of the σκήνους tent καταλυθῇ, should be loosed down, οἰκοδομὴν building ἐκ out of θεοῦ God ἔχομεν we are having οἰκίαν house ἀχειροποίητον not handmade αἰώνιον everlasting ἐν in τοῖς the οὐρανοῖς. heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:1

King James Version
- 5 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:1

American Standard Version
- 5 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:1

The Bible in Living English
- 5 ** For we know that if our earthly housing in the tent is pulled down we have a building that comes from God, an eternal unmanufactured house, in the heavens.

2 Corinthians Study Notes—Chapter 5

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 5:1
  
  our earthly house, this tent: Here Paul uses a man-made tent as a metaphor for the human body of a spirit-anointed Christian. Like a collapsible tent that is temporary and relatively fragile, the earthly bodies of anointed Christians are mortal, corruptible, and temporary. However, they look forward to “a building from God,” that is, a spiritual body that is everlasting and incorruptible.—1Co 15:50-53; compare 2Pe 1:13, 14; see study note on 2Co 5:4.
  
  torn down: Or “dissolved.” In connection with Paul’s illustration of the human body as a man-made tent, the Greek term ka·ta·lyʹo can also be rendered “dismantled; taken down.”