2 Corinthians 5:3
“If so be that being clothed we shal not be found naked.”
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2 Corinthians 5:3 Context
1For we know, that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolued, wee haue a building of God, an house not made with hand, eternall in the heauens. 2For in this we grone earnestly, desiring to be clothed vpō with our house, which is from heauen. 3If so be that being clothed we shal not be found naked. 4For, we that are in this tabernacle, doe grone, being burdened, not for that wee would bee vnclothed, but clothed vpon, that mortalitie might bee swallowed vp of life. 5Now he þt hath wrought vs for the selfe same thing, is God, who also hath giuen vnto vs the earnest of the spirit.
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Other Translations for 2 Corinthians 5:3
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
- King James Version
inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
- American Standard Version (1901)
So that our spirits may not be unclothed.
- Basic English Bible
if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked.
- Darby Bible
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
- Webster's Bible
if indeed having really put on a robe we shall not be found to be unclothed.
- Weymouth Bible
if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.
- World English Bible
and not nakid.
- Wycliffe Bible
if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked,
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for 2 Corinthians 5:3
5:3 If being clothed - That is, with the image of God, while we are in the body. We shall not be found naked - Of the wedding garment.
People's Bible Notes for 2 Corinthians 5:3
2Co 5:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. This shall come to pass, provided the spirit is clothed with a spiritual body at the resurrection, and not disembodied or naked. This is an allusion to the errors so prevalent at Corinth which he had combated in 1 Corinthians 15. See PNT "1Co 15:1". It was a Greek theory that when the spirit left the mortal body that it remained without a body, but Paul says: "If we too, clothed upon, shall not be without an immortal body". See Meyer on this passage. Many hold that Paul's language is due to the belief that they would meet the Lord in the mortal body is that at his speedy coming. This, I am sure, is a wrong interpretation.