2 Corinthians 5:9
Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
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
Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.
Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,
For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him.
Cross References
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt …
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, …
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us …
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know …
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached …
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with …
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.