5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, 1 is dismantled, 2 we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.
7:1 Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves 3 from everything that could defile the body 4 and the spirit, and thus accomplish 5 holiness out of reverence for God. 6
1 sn The expression the tent we live in refers to “our earthly house, our body.” Paul uses the metaphor of the physical body as a house or tent, the residence of the immaterial part of a person.
2 tn Or “destroyed.”
3 tn Or “purify ourselves.”
4 tn Grk “from every defilement of the flesh.”
5 tn Grk “accomplishing.” The participle has been translated as a finite verb due to considerations of contemporary English style, and “thus” has been supplied to indicate that it represents a result of the previous cleansing.
6 tn Grk “in the fear of God.”