2 Corinthians 5:1-6 NLT,NIV,ESV

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:3

If so be that being clothed - That is, fully prepared in this life for the glory of God; We shall not be found naked - Destitute in that future state of that Divine image which shall render us capable of enjoying an endless glory. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:4

For we that are in this tabernacle - We who are in this state of trial and difficulty do groan, being burdened; as if he had said: The whole of human life is a state of suffering, and especially our lot; who are troubled on every side, perplexed, persecuted, cast down, bearing about in the body the dying of our Lord Jesus, and being always delivered unto death on the account of Jesus, 2 Corinthians 4:8-11 . These were sufficient burdens, and sufficient causes of groaning. Not for that... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:5

Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing - God has given us our being and our body for this very purpose, that both might be made immortal, and both be glorified together. Or, God himself has given us this insatiable hungering and thirsting after righteousness and immortality. Mr. Addison has made a beautiful paraphrase of the sense of the apostle, whether he had his words in view or not: - " - Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:6

We are always confident - Θαρῥουντες ουν παντοτε· We are always full of courage; we never despond; we know where our help lies; and, having the earnest of the Spirit, we have the full assurance of hope. Whilst we are at home in the body, etc. - The original words in this sentence are very emphatic: ενδημειν signifies to dwell among one's own people; εκδημειν , to be a sojourner among a strange people. Heaven is the home of every genuine Christian, and is claimed by them as such;... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:1

Verse 1 1.For we know. Here follows an amplification (επεξεργασια) or embellishment of the foregoing statement. (507) For Paul has it in view, to correct in us impatience, dread, and dislike of the cross, contempt for what is mean, and in fine, pride, and effeminacy; and this can only be accomplished by raising up our minds as high as heaven, through contempt of the world. Now he has recourse to two arguments. On the one hand, he shows the miserable condition of mankind in this life, and on the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:3

Verse 3 3.Since clothed He restricts to believers, what he had stated respecting the certainty of a future life, as it is a thing peculiar to them. For the wicked, too, are stripped of the body, but as they bring nothing within the view of God, but a disgraceful nakedness, they are, consequently, not clothed with a glorious body. Believers, on the other hand, who appear in the view of God, clothed with Christ, and adorned with His image, receive the glorious robe of immortality. For I am... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:4

Verse 4 4.We groan, being burdened, because we desire not to be unclothed. The wicked, too, groan, because they are not contented with their present condition; but afterwards an opposite disposition prevails, that is, a clinging to life, so that they view death with horror, and do not feel the long continuance of this mortal life to be a burden. The groaning of believers, on the other hand, arises from this — that they know, that they are here in a state of exile from their native land, and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:5

Verse 5 5.Now he that hath fitted us. This is added in order that we may know, that this disposition is supernatural. For mere natural feeling will not lead us forward to this, for it does not comprehend that hundredfold recompense which springs from the dying of a single grain. (John 12:24.) We must, therefore, be fitted for it by God. The manner of it is at the same time subjoined — that he confirms us by his Spirit, who is as it were an earnest At the same time the particle also seems to be... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:6

Verse 6 6.Therefore we are always confident That is, as exercising dependence on the earnest of the Spirit; for, otherwise, we always tremble, or, at least, are courageous or alarmed by turns, and do not retain a uniform and even tenor of mind. Hence, that good courage of which Paul speaks has no place in us, unless it is maintained by the Spirit of God. The connecting particle and, which immediately follows, ought to be understood as meaning because, in this way: We are of good courage,... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:1

For . A further explanation of the hope expressed in 2 Corinthians 4:17 . We know. This accent of certainty is found only in the Christian writers. Our earthly house. Not the "house of clay" ( Job 4:19 ), but the house which serves us as the home of our souls on earth; as in 1 Corinthians 15:40 . Of this tabernacle; literally, the house of the tent; i.e. the tent of our mortality, the mortal body. In 2 Peter 1:13 , 2 Peter 1:14 it is called skenoma, and the expression, "the... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:6

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:1

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