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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible
2 Corinthians 5:3
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since, when we have taken it off, we will not be found naked.
If so be that being clothed we shal not be found naked.
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked.
since in fact after putting it on, we will not be found naked.
because it will clothe us so we will not be naked.
so that by putting it on we will not be found naked.
inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.
inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.
We want to put it on like clothes and not be naked.
With this around us we will not be found naked.
if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked.
It will clothe us and we will not be naked.
Because that if we be clothed, we shal not be found naked.
If not so, even when we are clothed, we will still be naked.
by being clothed with it we shall not be without a body.
if indeed, even after we have taken it off, we will not be found naked.
if indeed in being clothed, we shall not be found naked.
if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
So that our spirits may not be unclothed.
if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.
Of course, if we do put it on, we will not be found without a body.found naked">[fn]Revelation 3:18; 16:15;">[xr]
if, when that we have clothed, we may not be found naked.
if indeed, when clothed, we shall not be found naked.
So yet, yf that we be founde clothed, and not naked.
if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.
If being clothed, we shall not be found naked.
if indeed having really put on a robe we shall not be found to be unclothed.
and not nakid.
if so be that being unclothed we shall not be found naked.
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
if indeed, after we have put on our heavenly house, we will not be found naked.
if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies.
We will not be without a body. We will live in a new body.
if indeed, when we have taken it off we will not be found naked.
Although, indeed, even clothing ourselves, we shall not be found, naked; -
Yet so that we be found clothed, not naked.
so that by putting it on we may not be found naked.
so yet if that we be founde clothed and not naked.
if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked,
and longe to be clothed therwith, so yet, yf that we be founde clothed, and not naked.
tho' should I be divested of this body, I shall not even then be destitute of one.
Don't let anyone tell you differently, we will have bodies in heaven. We ain't gonna be like ghosts just floating around like a fog.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
being: Genesis 3:7-11, Exodus 32:25, Revelation 3:18, Revelation 16:15
Reciprocal: Genesis 3:21 - make Job 10:11 - clothed Matthew 22:11 - which 2 Corinthians 5:2 - clothed 2 Corinthians 5:4 - but
Cross-References
And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, "God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him."
Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them "man."
When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.
So Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.
And after he had become the father of Jared, Mahalaleel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.
Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
The angel replied, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.
Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If so be that being clothed,.... This supposition is made with respect to the saints who shall be alive at Christ's second coming, who will not be stripped of their bodies, and so will "not be found naked", or disembodied, and shall have a glory at once put upon them, both soul and body; or these words are an inference from the saints' present clothing, to their future clothing, thus; "seeing we are clothed", have not only put on the new man, and are clothed and adorned with the graces of the Spirit, but are arrayed with the best robe, the wedding garment, the robe of Christ's righteousness,
we shall not be found naked; but shall be clothed upon with the heavenly glory, as soon as we are dismissed from hence. Some read these words as a wish, "O that we were clothed, that we might not be found naked!" and so is expressive of one of the sighs, and groans, and earnest desires of the saints in their present situation after the glories of another world.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If so be that being clothed - This passage has been interpreted in a great many different ways. The view of Locke is given above. Rosenmuller renders it, “For in the other life we shall not be wholly destitute of a body, but we shall have a body.” Tyndale renders it, “If it happen that we be found clothed, and not naked.” Doddridge supposes it to mean, “since being so clothed upon, we shall not be found naked, and exposed to any evil and inconvenience, how entirely soever we may be stripped of everything we can call our own here below.” Hammond explains it to mean, “If, indeed, we shall, happily, be among the number of those faithful Christians, who will be found clothed upon, not naked.” Various other expositions may be seen in the larger commentaries. The meaning is probably this:
(1) The word “clothed” refers to the future spiritual body of believers; the eternal habitation in which they shall reside.
(2) The expression implies an earnest desire of Paul to be thus invested with that body.
(3) It is the language of humility and of deep solicitude, as if it were possible that they might fail, and as if it demanded their utmost care and anxiety that they might thus be clothed with the spiritual body in heaven.
(4) It means that in that future state, the soul will not be naked; that is, destitute of any body, or covering. The present body will be laid aside. It will return to corruption, and the disembodied Spirit will ascend to God and to heaven. It will be disencumbered of the body with which it has been so long clothed. But we are not thence to infer that it will be destitute of a body; that it will remain a naked soul. It will be clothed there in its appropriate glorified body; and will have an appropriate habitation there. This does not imply, as Bloomfield supposes, that the souls of the wicked will be destitute of any such habitation as the glorified body of the saints; which may be true - but it means simply that the soul shall not be destitute of an appropriate body in heaven, but that the union of body and soul there shall be known as well as on earth.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Corinthians 5:3. If so be that being clothed — That is, fully prepared in this life for the glory of God;
We shall not be found naked. — Destitute in that future state of that Divine image which shall render us capable of enjoying an endless glory.
