2 Corinthians 5:4 — King James Version← Study notes
“For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.”
2 Corinthians 5:4 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · 2 Corinthians 5:423 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 5:4
“For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan , not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon.” Here again he has utterly and manifestly stopped the mouths of the heretics, showing that he is not speaking absolutely of a body differing in identity , but of corruption and incorruption: 'For we do not therefore groan,' says he, 'that we may be delivered from the body: for of this we do not wish to be unclothed; but we hasten to be delivered from…
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