Charles Spurgeon Commentary 2 Corinthians 5:1

"For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens." — 2 Corinthians 5:1 (ASV)

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.

Is this not grand courage on the part of the apostle? With all the world against him, and himself alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, he looks at the new body, the new house that God is making for him, and he reckons that, to shuffle off this mortal coil will be no loss to him, since, when he loses the tent in which he lives here, he will go to a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.