2 Corinthians 5:2
Good News Translation
And now we sigh, so great is our desire that our home which comes from heaven should be put on over us;

New Revised Standard Version
For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling—

Contemporary English Version
While we are here on earth, we sigh because we want to live in that heavenly home.

New American Bible
For in this tent we groan, longing to be further clothed with our heavenly habitation

Douay-Rheims Bible
For in this also we groan, desiring to be clothed upon with our habitation that is from heaven.

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For in this also we groan, desiring to be clothed upon with our habitation that is from heaven.

we.

2 Corinthians 5:4 For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burthened; because we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that that which is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Romans 7:24 Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

Romans 8:23 And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit: even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body.

1 Peter 1:6,7 Wherein you shalt greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations: . . .

earnestly.

Philippians 1:23 But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.

clothed.

2 Corinthians 5:3,4 Yet so that we be found clothed, not naked. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:53,54 For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortal must put on immortality. . . .

Context
Our Eternal Dwelling
1For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven. 2For in this also we groan, desiring to be clothed upon with our habitation that is from heaven. 3Yet so that we be found clothed, not naked.…
Cross References
Romans 8:23
And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit: even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body.

1 Corinthians 15:51
Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again: but we shall not all be changed.

1 Corinthians 15:53
For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortal must put on immortality.

2 Corinthians 5:3
Yet so that we be found clothed, not naked.

2 Corinthians 5:4
For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burthened; because we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that that which is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

2 Corinthians 5:1
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