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2 Corinthians 5:5

Wrought [κ α τ ε ρ γ α σ α μ ε ν ο ς]. The compound is significant, indicating an accomplished fact. Through the various operations of His Spirit and the processes of His discipline, God has worked us out (Stanley, worked up) for this change. The process includes the dissolution of what is mortal no less than the renewal. The one is a step to the other. See 1 Corinthians 14:36.

Earnest of the Spirit. See on ch. 2 Corinthians 1:22, and compare Romans 8:11. Of the Spirit is appositional, the Spirit as the earnest.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 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 glorifi...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    NOW HE THAT HATH WROUGHT US FOR THE SELF-SAME THING - The phrase “self-same thing” here means this very thing, that is, the thing to which he had referred - the preparation for heaven, or the heavenly...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 Cons...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    JOY AND JUDGMENT TO COME (2 Corinthians 5:1-10)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    For we know that if this earthly house of ours, that tent which is the body is pulled down, we have a building which comes from God, a house not made with hands, eternal and in the heavens. For indeed...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WROUGHT, See 2 Corinthians 4:17. FOR. Greek. _cis._ App-104. ALSO. Omit, UNTO. to. EARNEST. See 2 Corinthians 1:22. The transliteration of the Hebrew _erabon_. SPIRIT, App-101....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    1–10. He continues his impassioned statement of the sufferings and the consolations of an Apostle, as drawn from his own experience. The support derived from the realization of the unseen is further d...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    10 The widespread fiction that the life of a Christian must be one of settled calm and contentment, prosperous and in every way advantageous in this life, is proven utterly fallacious by the experienc...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The subject of 2 Corinthians 4 is continued. St. Paul has been pointing out that amid bodily weakness and decay he is encouraged by the thought that the temporal is transient, while the spiritual is e...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    ὁ δὲ κατεργασάμενος κ. τ. λ.: _now He that worked us up for this very thing, sc._, the change from mortality to life, _is God_ (_cf._ 2 Corinthians 4:6 and especially 2 Corinthians 1:21 for the form o...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    His expectation of a Glorified Body hereafter; and his desire to survive until the Second Advent....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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 Mas...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    VERSE 5 God told us about the immortal body which awaits us and how to reach it. He gave us the Holy Spirit as a pledge that He would keep the promise of a new body (Hebrews 2:3-4)....

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Unquestioned certainty as to the future, and present confidence of faith are seen here further developed. "We know" is the proper language of Christianity. "The earthly house of this tabernacle" is of...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

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  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Corinthians 5:5 Now G1161 prepared G2716 (G5666) us G2248 for G1519 thing G846 G5124 God G2316 who...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Why death has no terrors for the Lord's servant. The motive and object of ministry for Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The servant of God who has the earnest...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 ma...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    GOD IS THE ONE. Again Paul points to God as the source of _heavenly house._ Compare Romans 5:18 and note. AS THE GUARANTEE. The Spirit is our guarantee, because it is through the Spirit that we will b...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Now He that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God._ THE PATIENT DIVINE WORKMAN AND HIS PURPOSE These words penetrate deep into the secrets of God. To Paul everything is the Divine working....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 5:5 THE SPIRIT AS A GUARANTEE. The presence of the Spirit in Christians’ lives now is the down payment or guarantee that they will receive resurrection bodies when...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    _Now He that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God._ He that wrought, perfected, and formed us, _i.e._, (1.) He that created us for this eternal life of bliss, is God. (2.) He who by His eter...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTIER 5 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. The Apostle goes on to remind the Corinthians of the glories of heaven, saying that in exile here and in the tabernacle of the flesh he longs for them, and wish...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 5:1.—Flow of _thought quite continuous_ from 2 Corinthians 4:18. _For_ (2 Corinthians 4:15).… _For_ (17).… _For_ ...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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:...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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, vari...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 3:24; 2 Corinthians 1:22; 2 Corinthians 4:17; Ephesians 1:13;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Now he that hath wrought us to this very thing — This longing for immortality. Is God — For none but God, none less than the Almighty, could have wrought this in us....

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    That is, he that hath wrought and appointed us, he that hath prepared and fitted us, for this glorious change, and hath set our souls a-longing for this immortal state, is God; who hath also GIVEN US...

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