--- title: "2 Corinthians 5 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible" description: "Read 2 Corinthians 5 with cokes commentary on the holy bible commentary. 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" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/2-corinthians/5" --- [ Read](/kjv/2-corinthians/5)[ Commentary](/study/2-corinthians/5)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/2-corinthians/5) Audio 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. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 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. 5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing *is* God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 6 Therefore *we are* always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 8 We are confident, *I say*, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things *done* in *his* body, according to that he hath done, whether *it be* good or bad. 11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences. 12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to *answer* them which glory in appearance, and not in heart. 13 For whether we be beside ourselves, *it is* to God: or whether we be sober, *it is* for your cause. 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And *that* he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we *him* no more. 17 Therefore if any man *be* in Christ, *he is* a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things *are* of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech *you* by us: we pray *you* in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him *to be* sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. [2 Corinthians 4](/study/2-corinthians/4) [2 Corinthians 6](/study/2-corinthians/6) ## Commentary To verse 1 ***[2 Corinthians 5:1](/kjv/2-corinthians/5/1)*****.*****For we know,*****&c.—** We, as has been said but now, having eternal glory in view, do not droop in our work, nor faint under our manifold afflictions: for we are not only persuaded, upon the testimony of God in his word, that there is a rest provided for his faithful people, but by the witness of his Spirit with our spirits, as his children, we are likewise fully assured that we ourselves have a personal interest in it; and that, when these frail bodies, in which our souls now dwell, as in their house and home, ([2 Corinthians 5:6](/kjv/2-corinthians/5/6).) during our state of pilgrimage and warfare upon earth, and which were originally formed out of it, and are like mean and moveable tents, that are erected but for a little while, and mustquickly be taken to pieces, and pulled down: as soon, I say, as this mortal frame shall be dissolved, whether by a natural or violent death, we make no doubt but that *our spirits,*which will then *return to God, who gave them,*([Ecclesiastes 12:7](/kjv/ecclesiastes/12/7).) shall be immediately possessed of a much more glorious habitation; which we already have in title, through Jesus Christ, and which he has graciously prepared for his faithful saints; even a secure, firm, and delightful mansion for our souls, in the immediate presence of Christ; ([2 Corinthians 5:8](/kjv/2-corinthians/5/8).) a mansion not of human, temporary fabric, like tents and tabernacles that are made by the hands of men, but built, like a celestial palace, on immoveable foundations, by the immediate power of God himself, (*[Hebrews 11:10](/kjv/hebrews/11/10)*.) for our eternal residence, in a manner suitable to his own excellent greatness and goodness, past all danger of remove, or decay, in the highest heaven: and we are satisfied that, at Christ's second appearing, this *mortal body*shall be fashioned like unto his glorious body, by his Almighty power; and that then we shall be clothed again with our immortalized bodies, and so in our whole persons be ever with the Lord. (*Php 3:21*. 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