2 Corinthians 5:4

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. FOR resuming 2 Corinthians 5:2 FOR - resuming 2 Corinthians 5:2. BURDENED: NOT FOR THAT - rather, 'in that we desire not [ ef (G1909) hoo (G3739) ou (G3756) thelomen (G2309)] to have ourselves unclothed (of our present body), but clothed upon,' or 'over'...

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 that they know, that they are here shut up in the body as in a prison. Hence they feel this life to be _a burden, _because in it they cannot enjoy true and perfect blessedness, because they cannot escape from the bondage of sin otherwise than by death, and hence they aspire to be elsewhere. As, however, it is natural for all animals to desire existence, how can it be, that believers are willing to cease...

1-8 The believer not only is well assured by faith that there is another and a happy life after this is ended, but he has good hope, through grace, of heaven as a dwelling-place, a resting-place, a hiding-place. In our Father's house there are many mansions, whose Builder and Maker is God. The happiness of the future state is what God has prepared for those that love him: everlasting habitations, not like the earthly tabernacles, the poor cottages of clay, in which our souls now dwell; that are mouldering and decaying, whose foundations are in the dust. The body of flesh is a heavy burden, the calamities of life are a heavy load. But believers groan, being burdened with a body of sin, and because of the many corruptions remaining and raging within them. Death will strip us of the clothing of flesh, and all the comforts of life, as well as end all our troubles here below. But believing s...

Verse 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. These were sufficient _burdens_, and sufficient causes of _groaning_. _NOT FOR THAT WE WOULD BE UNCLOTHED_] We do not desire _death_, nor to die, even with the full prospect of eternal glory before our eyes, an hour before that time whic

FOR WE - We who are Christians. All Christians. THAT ARE IN THIS TABERNACLE - This frail and dying body; note, 2 Corinthians 5:1. DO GROAN - see 2 Corinthians 5:2. This is a further explanation of what is said in 2 Corinthians 5:2. It implies an ardent and earnest desire to leave a world of toil and pain, and to enter into a world of rest and glory. BEING BURDENED - Being borne down by the toils, and trials, and calamities of this life; see the note,...

EXPOSITION Continuation of the topic that hope is the chief support of the preacher of the gospel (2 Corinthians 5:1). Their self-sacrifice in preaching the gospel of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:11). 2 CORINTHIANS 5:1 _The hope of the future rife is the great support of our efforts._ 2 CORINTHIANS 5:1 FOR. A further explanation of the hope expressed in 2 Corinthians 4:17. WE KNOW. T

FOR WE THAT ARE IN THIS TABERNACLE DO GROAN,.... There are some of the saints who are not in the tabernacle, the body. They were in it, but now are not; their bodies are in the grave, the house appointed for all living; and their souls are in the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, in everlasting habitations, in the mansions prepared in Christ's Father's house; and they have done groaning, being delivered from every oppressor, sin, Satan, and the world; are at rest from all their labours, and ate free from every burden; only the saints who are in the tabernacle of the body, in an unsettled state, groan, being in the midst of tribulation, and not yet in the enjoyment of that happiness they are wishing for. The reason of their groaning is, because they are BURDENED with the body itself, which is a clog and incumbrance to the soul in its spiritual exercises; and oftentimes b...

2 Corinthians 5:1. _For 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,_ In this poor body it is our lot often to groan, but the groan is a hopeful one, for it is a birth-pang, and it will bring joy in due time: «For in this we groan,» 2 Corinthians 5:2. Earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: if it 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, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest

6. CONCERNING THE FUTURE. THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION. CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Earthly and the Heavenly House. (2 Corinthians 5:1 .)_ 2. The Judgment Seat of Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:9 .) 3. The Constraint of Love. (2 Corinthians 5:13 .) 4. The Ministry of Reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5:17 .) The certainty of the future things is brought more fully in view. The apostle had given the great doctrines concerning the resurrection of the body, the coming of the Lord and the blessed hope in his first epistle (chapter 15). In the closing verses of the prece

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; in the following verses under the figure of a robe. There has been much discussion as to the precise point at which Paul conceives of this enrobing with the spiritual body as taking place; whether immediately after death or only after the re