2 Corinthians 5:6
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
Context
This verse from 2 Corinthians Chapter 5 connects to 10 cross-references. The tent of this earthly life will be dissolved and replaced by an eternal house from God. Paul is convinced that absent from the body means present with the Lord. We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. …
Other Translations
Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord
having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, --
So, then, we are ever without fear, and though conscious that while we are in the body we are away from the Lord,
Cross References
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as …
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this …
One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house …
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I …
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in …
And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What …
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an …
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the …