2 Corinthians 5:3

Myles Coverdale Bible

and longe to be clothed therwith, so yet, yf that we be founde clothed, and not naked.

Parallel Translations

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.

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.

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

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

Christian Standard Bible®
since, when we are clothed, we will 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

New English Translation
if indeed, after we have put on our heavenly house, we 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and not nakid.

Contextual Overview

¹ We knowe surely, yt yf oure earthy house of this dwellynge were destroyed, we haue a buyldynge ordeyned of God, an house not made with handes, but euerlastynge in heauen. ² And in the same sighe we also after oure masion, which is from heauen: ³ and longe to be clothed therwith, so yet, yf that we be founde clothed, and not naked. ⁴ For as longe as we are in this tabernacle, we sighe and are greued, for we had rather not be vnclothed, but to be clothed vpon, that mortalite might be swalowed vp of life. ⁵ But he that hath ordeyned vs for this, is God, which hath geuen vs the earnest of the sprete. ⁶ Therfore are we allwaye of good cheare, and knowe, that as longe as we dwell here in the body, we are not at home with the LORDE: ⁷ for we walke in faith, and se him not. ⁸ Neuertheles we are of good comforte, and had leuer to be absent from the body, & to be at home with the LORDE. ⁹ Wherfore, whether we be at home or fro home, we endeuoure oure selues to please him. ¹⁰ For we must all appeare before the iudgment seate of Christ, yt euery one maye receaue in his body, acordinge to yt he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

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 laye yet with his wyfe agayne, & she bare a sonne, and called him Seth. For God (sayde she) hath apoynted me another sede, for Abell, whom Cain slew.

Genesis 5:2
Male and female made he them, and blessed the, & called their names Man, in the tyme whan they were created.

Genesis 5:3
And Adam was an hundreth and thirtie yeare olde, and begat a sonne, which was like his owne ymage, and called his name Seth:

Genesis 5:14
And his whole age was nyene hundreth and ten yeares, and so he dyed.

Genesis 5:16
and begat Iared: and lyued therafter eight hundreth and thirtie yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters.

Job 14:4
Who can make it cleane, that commeth of an vncleane thinge? No body.

Job 25:4
But how maye a man copared vnto God, be iustified? Or, how can he be clene, that is borne of a woman?

Psalms 51:5
Beholde, I was borne in wickednesse, and in synne hath my mother conceaued me.

Luke 1:35
The angell answered, & sayde vnto her: The holy goost shal come vpon the, & the power of the Hyest shal ouershadowe the. Therfore that Holy also which shalbe borne (of the) shalbe called the sonne of God.

John 3:6
That which is borne of flesh, is flesh: & that which is borne of the sprete, is sprete.

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.