2 Corinthians 5:1

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Longing to Be “at Home with the Lord” 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 This mortal life is a pilgrimage, and our body is a tent, so slight, so transitory, so easily taken down; but what does it matter, since there is awaiting us a mansion prepared by God? Often in this veil of flesh we groan. It cages us, anchors us down to earth, hampers us with its needs, obstructs our vision, and becomes the medium of temptation. How good it would be if our physical body could be suddenly transmuted into the... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:1-21

The vision of the house of God, and the coming at last to the Lord, throws its light on, and explains the value of, the groaning and the burden of the tabernacle, of the period of absence from the Master. "Absent from the body," "at home with the Lord." This reveals the consciousness. No strangeness, no sense of having to keep up an appearance, "at home with the Lord." The passing of all that is strained, and the coming of the perfect ease of naturalness. Surely Paul was right. The affliction... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:1

‘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.’ Paul now declares his confidence in a bodily future after the resurrection. He tells us that if ‘the earthly house of our tabernacle (that is, our earthly tent house) is destroyed’ we have something more substantial, a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. There is here a deliberate contrast between what is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

The Reason Why They Are Setting Their Minds On Things Above (2 Corinthians 5:1-10 ) The thought of looking at what is unseen, rather than at what is seen, now leads on to a consideration of the resurrection of the body. Paul visualises the glorious future that awaits all who are His. Not for the Christian the nakedness of death, but a renewed, spiritual, eternal body in the heavens. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

2 Corinthians 5:1-2 Samuel : . Paul proceeds to expand the thought of 2 Corinthians 4:16, modifying the idea of an inner personality into that of a house or home for the soul prepared by God in heaven. The earthly frame in which we dwell here has its counterpart in a spiritual frame, the resurrection-body, which awaits us in heaven ( cf. 1 Corinthians 15:38 *, “ God giveth it a body” ). In 2 Corinthians 5:1 f. he speaks of this as a house which in contrast to the physical body is “ eternal”... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:1

The apostle had before said, that he looked at the things not seen; in this verse he openeth himself, and showeth what those unseen things are: We (saith he) know, we have a certain persuasion, we doubt not of it, but that if our body were dissolved. This body he calleth an earthly house, either because it is made of the dust of the earth, into which it must again be resolved; or because it is only the habitation of the soul, so long as the soul is on this side of heaven; and therefore he... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:1-21

CRITICAL NOTES2 Corinthians 5:1.—Flow of thought quite continuous from 2 Corinthians 4:18. For (2 Corinthians 4:15).… For (17).… For (2 Corinthians 5:1).… For (2).… For (4).… For (10), etc.; a chain of “fors.” We know.—Partly from having seen the glorified Christ wearing His resurrection body; Paul and the other Apostolic “witnesses of the resurrection” (Acts 1:22) could on this ground all say “we.” [Note how Peter is led from the “putting off” of his own “tabernacle” (cognate word) to the... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 2 Corinthians 5:1-5

DISCOURSE: 2017THE CHRISTIAN’S ASSURED PROSPECT OF GLORY2 Corinthians 5:1-5. 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. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven; if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:1-21

This time, let's turn in our Bibles to II Corinthians, chapter five.Paul talked about how he was constantly facing death for the cause of Jesus Christ. But though he was constantly facing death, various perils, it didn't really trouble him, for he had a correct understanding of death. And I think that this is something that we as Christians need to have: a correct understanding of what death is for the child of God.And it is because we often do not have a correct understanding, we hear such... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Corinthians 5:1-21

2 Corinthians 5:1 . We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God eternal in the heavens. The contrast between a house made with hands, and a house made by Jehovah’s fiat, is very striking. But the assurance of it is more to be remarked. “We know” that if our bodies were dissolved, we have a mansion in the heavens. On the superior excellence of the ministry, and on the eternal weight of glory, our confidence is built, that whenever we shall... read more

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