2 Corinthians 5:3

Amplified Bible

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

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.

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.

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.

Contextual Overview

¹For we know that if the earthly tent [our physical body] which is our house is torn down [through death], we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ²For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our [immortal, eternal] celestial dwelling, ³so that by putting it on we will not be found naked.⁴For while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened [often weighed down, oppressed], not that we want to be unclothed [separated by death from the body], but to be clothed, so that what is mortal [the body] will be swallowed up by life [after the resurrection]. ⁵Now He who has made us and prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the [Holy] Spirit as a pledge [a guarantee, a down payment on the fulfillment of His promise]. ⁶So then, being always filled with good courage and confident hope, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— ⁷for we walk by faith, not by sight [living our lives in a manner consistent with our confident belief in God's promises]— ⁸we are [as I was saying] of good courage and confident hope, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. ⁹Therefore, whether we are at home [on earth] or away from home [and with Him], it is our [constant] ambition to be pleasing to Him. ¹⁰For we [believers will be called to account and] must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be repaid for what has been done in the body, whether good or bad [that is, each will be held responsible for his actions, purposes, goals, motives—the use or misuse of his time, opportunities and abilities].

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

Genesis 4:25
Adam knew [Eve as] his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for [she said], "God has granted another child for me in place of Abel, because Cain killed him."

Genesis 5:2
He created them male and female, and blessed them and named them Mankind at the time they were created.

Genesis 5:3
When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

Genesis 5:14
So Kenan lived nine hundred and ten years, and he died.

Genesis 5:16
Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years after the birth of Jared and had other sons and daughters.

Job 14:4
"Who can make a clean thing out of the unclean? No one!

Job 25:4
"How then can man be justified and righteous with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean?

Psalms 51:5
I was brought forth in [a state of] wickedness; In sin my mother conceived me [and from my beginning I, too, was sinful].

Luke 1:35
Then the angel replied to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you [like a cloud]; for that reason the holy (pure, sinless) Child shall be called the Son of God.

John 3:6
"That which is born of the flesh is flesh [the physical is merely physical], and that which is born of the Spirit is 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.