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-# Connecting Statement:
-
-Paul continues by contrasting believers' earthly bodies to the heavenly ones God will give.
-
 # if our earthly house—the tent—is destroyed, we have a building from God
 
-Here a temporary "house" or "tent" is a metaphor for a person's physical body and a permanent "building from God" is a metaphor for the new body that God will give believers after they die. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
+Here a temporary "house" or "tent" is a metaphor for a person's physical body and a permanent "building from God" is a metaphor for the new body that God will give believers after they die. 
 
 # if our earthly house—the tent—is destroyed, we have
 
-This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "if people destroy our earthly house—the tent—we have" or "if people kill our bodies, we have" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
-
-# if our earthly house—the tent—is destroyed
-
-"if the tent that is our home on earth is destroyed"
+"if people destroy our earthly house—the tent—we have" or "if people kill our bodies, we have" 
 
 # It is a house not made by human hands
 
-Here "house" means the same thing as "building from God." Here "hands" is a synecdoche that represents the human as a whole. This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "It is a house that humans did not make" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
+"It is a house that humans did not make"