2 Corinthians 5:4
Greek Text— 2 Corinthians 5:4For 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.
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Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.
with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me.”
I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”
For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’
Now Elisha became sick with the illness of which he died; and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.
Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
And behold, a pale horse, and the name of he who sat on it was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.
for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless Yahweh’s inheritance?”
Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.
Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.
The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.
Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying will be heard in her no more.
You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.
Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:
whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
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But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,
(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’ ”
For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
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.
I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”
Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.
He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,
Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”