2 Corinthians 5:3

Simplified Cowboy Version

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.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
since, when we have taken it off, we will not be found naked.

King James Version (1611)
If so be that being clothed we shal not be found naked.

King James Version
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

English Standard Version
if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked.

New American Standard Bible
since in fact after putting it on, we will not be found naked.

New Century Version
because it will clothe us so we will not be naked.

Amplified Bible
so that by putting it on we will not be found naked.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.

Legacy Standard Bible
inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.

Berean Standard Bible
because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.

Contemporary English Version
We want to put it on like clothes and not be naked.

Complete Jewish Bible
With this around us we will not be found naked.

Darby Translation
if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked.

Easy-to-Read Version
It will clothe us and we will not be naked.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Because that if we be clothed, we shal not be found naked.

George Lamsa Translation
If not so, even when we are clothed, we will still be naked.

Good News Translation
by being clothed with it we shall not be without a body.

Lexham English Bible
if indeed, even after we have taken it off, we will not be found naked.

Literal Translation
if indeed in being clothed, we shall not be found naked.

American Standard Version
if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

Bible in Basic English
So that our spirits may not be unclothed.

Hebrew Names Version
if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.

International Standard Version
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]

Etheridge Translation
if, when that we have clothed, we may not be found naked.

Murdock Translation
if indeed, when clothed, we shall not be found naked.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So yet, yf that we be founde clothed, and not naked.

English Revised Version
if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

World English Bible
if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If being clothed, we shall not be found naked.

Weymouth's New Testament
if indeed having really put on a robe we shall not be found to be unclothed.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and not nakid.

Update Bible Version
if so be that being unclothed we shall not be found naked.

Webster's Bible Translation
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

New English Translation
if indeed, after we have put on our heavenly house, we will not be found naked.

New King James Version
if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.

New Living Translation
For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies.

New Life Bible
We will not be without a body. We will live in a new body.

New Revised Standard
if indeed, when we have taken it off we will not be found naked.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Although, indeed, even clothing ourselves, we shall not be found, naked; -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet so that we be found clothed, not naked.

Revised Standard Version
so that by putting it on we may not be found naked.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
so yet if that we be founde clothed and not naked.

Young's Literal Translation
if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and longe to be clothed therwith, so yet, yf that we be founde clothed, and not naked.

Mace New Testament (1729)
tho' should I be divested of this body, I shall not even then be destitute of one.

Contextual Overview

¹ This wall tent we live in here will one day be taken down and put away. What we will get is a brand-new body in heaven that won't flap, sag, or tear. God is going to do us up just right. ²Sure, we get tired of living in these earthly bodies and long for the new one that we know is waiting on us. ³Don'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. ⁴These tents we live in here groan, sigh, and complain, but we ain't trying to shuck 'em before God is through with us. We know the times coming and we can't wait to put on our new duds. ⁵Having something made specifically for us from God is something special. We know it's waiting on us because the Holy Spirit was the guarantee sent to us as a promise of what's to come. ⁶So we can walk with our head high even though we know as long as we are down here, we are away from the Lord. ⁷What we believe will happen guides us and keeps us confident, not what we might be seeing right now. ⁸Yep, we ride with our shoulders back and head high. There's nothing that can happen to these bodies we don't long for so we can be with the Lord. ⁹So, here's the secret, if we are here or there, the goal is to please God. ¹⁰We're all going to stand in front of Jesus and give an account of the things we did on his spread. We will then receive our reward or our damnation based on what we did down here.

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

Luke 1:35
Gabriel said, "You ain't gotta worry about that part. God will take care of it. This baby is going to be holy, and he is gonna be God's only boy.

John 3:6
Humans can only make humans, but the Holy Spirit can give birth to spiritual life.

Romans 5:12
When Adam sinned, he doomed us all. Adam's sin brought death and no one escapes it because everyone sins.

1 Corinthians 15:39
Just think about how different life is here on earth. People have one type of body, animals another, and still birds have something completely different just like the fish have something different.

Ephesians 2:3
But the truth is, all of us used to act like that. We only followed what felt good at the moment. We thought we were doing what we wanted, but we were being guided by the devil. Because of this, it's no wonder we were destined to be punished by God.

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.