KJV King James Version
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
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2 Corinthians 5:3
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.
WEB World English Bible
if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.
ASV American Standard Version
if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked,
Surrounding context — 2 Corinthians 5
1 For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
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.
5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing [is] God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6 Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
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Genesis 3:7-11And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.Revelation 16:15Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed [is] he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.Revelation 3:18I 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 32:25And when Moses saw that the people [were] naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto [their] shame among their enemies:)
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