2 Corinthians 5:7

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 5:7

That is, we live, and order our conversations, not by sight, or any evidence of sense, but by faith, which is described by the apostle, Hebrews 11:1, to be the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. We see nothing here by the eye of sense but mortality, corruption, and misery; but by faith we see another more excellent and glorious state, and we order our life according to our faith, and sight of things that are invisible: or sight here may be taken more strictly for... 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

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:7

2 Corinthians 5:7 I. We walk by faith, in the conviction that what is right must end in peace, and what is wrong must end in misery. This assumes that there is a living and true God; that there is a real kingdom on earth a government over men so constituted that right must come right, and wrong must come wrong; that by no possibility by no combination of circumstances, by no power of men or devils can wheat bring forth tares, or tares wheat; that never can there be separated the consequences... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 2 Corinthians 5:7

DISCOURSE: 2018THE CHRISTIAN WALKING BY FAITH2 Corinthians 5:7. We walk by faith, not by sight.IF we behold any wonderful effects, we naturally inquire after the cause that has produced them. Now in the preceding context we behold as extraordinary a phenomenon as can be conceived: a sinner, like ourselves, not only divested of all fear of death, but longing after it as the consummation of all his hopes, and the completion of all his desires. This is a frame of mind totally unknown to man by... 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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Corinthians 5:6-9

2 Corinthians 5:6-9Therefore we are always confident … at home in the body … absent from the Lord.Paul’s thoughts about dying1. The peculiar interest of this passage is, that it gives us an insight into the apostle’s personal feelings in the contemplation of death. In other places he refers to what is before and after death; but this is the only passage that gives us an insight into his forebodings about the act itself.2. He evidently writes under the pressure of some sadness; and in chap. 4.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:7

7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) Ver. 7. For we walk by faith ] Which puts our heads into heaven, sets us on the top of Pisgah with Moses, and therehence descries and describes unto us the promised land, gives us to set one foot aforehand in the porch of Paradise, to see as Stephen did Christ holding out a crown, with this inscription, Vincenti dabo I die conquering. Not by sight ] Sense corrects imagination, reason sense, but faith corrects both, thrusting Hagar out of doors, when... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Corinthians 5:7

2 Corinthians 1:24, 2 Corinthians 4:18, Deuteronomy 12:9, Romans 8:24, Romans 8:25, 1 Corinthians 13:12, Galatians 2:20, Hebrews 10:38, Hebrews 11:1-Ezekiel :, Hebrews 11:27, 1 Peter 1:8, 1 Peter 5:9 Reciprocal: John 20:29 - blessed 1 Corinthians 13:10 - General Colossians 2:6 - walk Colossians 3:3 - your read more

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