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Time after Pentecost · Proper 6 · Year B

2 Corinthians 5:1-10 (11-17)

By Faith, Not Sight, and a New Creation

June 13, 2027

The Monk by the Sea, Caspar David Friedrich
The Monk by the Sea, Caspar David Friedrich, 1808–10Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Almost nothing: a strip of sand, a strip of sea, and an enormous sky, with one small figure. Contemporaries found it genuinely disturbing; Kleist wrote that looking at it felt like having one's eyelids cut away.We walk by faith, not by sight. While we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.Caspar David FriedrichThe German Romantic who painted figures with their backs to us looking at something, and made that the subject.Alte Nationalgalerie, BerlinOn Museum Island, holding nineteenth-century art, and the single best place to see Caspar David Friedrich.Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
LSB Three-Year Lectionary
GospelMark 4:26-34Mk 4:26-34
Epistle2 Cor. 5:1-10 (11-17)2 Cor 5:1-10 (11-17)
Old TestamentEzek. 17:22-24Ez 17:22-24
PsalterPs. 1Ps 1

Overview & Insights

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)

Paul writes of living by faith rather than sight and of aiming to please the Lord before whom all will appear. He says the love of Christ compels believers, so that anyone in Christ is a new creation.

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Commentary

Commentary on 2 Corinthians 5:6-17Commentary on 2 Cor 5:6-17 Working Preacher

Luther Seminary exegesis of walking by faith and longing for the heavenly dwelling, covering this Sunday's verses.

2 Corinthians 5: Our Heavenly Dwelling2 Cor 5: Our Heavenly Dwelling Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse by verse evangelical commentary on the chapter.

2 Corinthians 5 Commentary2 Cor 5 Commentary Precept Austin

A deep gathering of word studies and cross references on the eternal house and walking by faith.

2 Corinthians 5:1 Commentaries2 Cor 5:1 Commentaries BibleHub

Aggregates classic commentaries on the earthly tent and the building from God in one place.

2 Corinthians 5, Expository Notes2 Cor 5, Expository Notes StudyLight

Thomas Constable's expository notes on the heavenly dwelling and the aim to please the Lord.

Background & Word Study

Book of 2 Corinthians OverviewBook of 2 Cor Overview BibleProject

An animated overview of the letter and its theme of strength shown in weakness.

2 Corinthians 5:1 Greek Interlinear2 Cor 5:1 Greek Interlinear BibleHub

Greek word by word with parsing for the passage on the heavenly dwelling.

The Church Fathers

Catena on 2 Corinthians 5Catena on 2 Cor 5 Catena

Patristic comments verse by verse on the eternal house and walking by faith.

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