2 Corinthians 5:3
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
2 Corinthians 5:3 in other translations
| BSB | because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. |
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| WEB | if indeed being clothed, we will not be found naked. |
| ASV | if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. |
| YLT | if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked, |
| DARBY | if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked. |
| BBE | So that our spirits may not be unclothed. |
| Webster | If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. |
What does 2 Corinthians 5:3 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
(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.
(b) "found naked" Rev 3:18, 16:15
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Corinthians 5:1-8
The believer not only is well assured by faith that there is another and a happy life after this is ended, but he has good hope, through grace, of heaven as a dwelling-place, a resting-place, a hiding-place. In our Father's house there are many mansions, whose Builder and Maker is God. The happiness of the future state is what God has prepared for those that love him: everlasting habitations, not like the earthly…
2 Corinthians 5:3 in the original Greek
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Cross references for 2 Corinthians 5:3
- Genesis 3:7-11
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. …
- Revelation 16:15
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
- Revelation 3:18
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
- Exodus 32:25
And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
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Context
- 2 Corinthians 5:2
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
- 2 Corinthians 5:3
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
- 2 Corinthians 5:4
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.
2 Corinthians 5:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Puesto que en verdad habremos sido hallados vestidos, y no desnudos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | si toutefois, même en étant vêtus, nous ne sommes pas trouvés nus. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | so wir anders, wenn wir auch bekleidet sind, nicht nackt erfunden werden. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | si tamen vestiti, non nudi inveniamur. |