Verse 6

Therefore, we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.

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  • Heb 11:13 : 13 All these people died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar and been persuaded of them, and having embraced them, they openly declared that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
  • Phil 3:20-21 : 20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly bodies to be like his glorious body, through the power that enables him to bring everything under his control.
  • Heb 10:35 : 35 So do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
  • Heb 13:14 : 14 For here we have no lasting city, but we eagerly seek the city that is to come.
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 I urge the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ's sufferings, and also as one who will share in the glory to be revealed.
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I, John, your brother and companion in the tribulation, kingdom, and perseverance in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers and temporary residents before you, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
  • Ps 27:3-4 : 3 Though an army encamps against me, my heart will not be afraid; though war rises against me, in this I will be confident. 4 One thing I have asked from the Lord; this I will seek: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 With reproofs for iniquity, You discipline a man; like a moth, You consume his cherished things. Surely, every man is but a breath. Selah.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a sojourner on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
  • Prov 14:26 : 26 In the fear of the LORD there is strong confidence, and His children will have a place of refuge.
  • Isa 30:15 : 15 For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: 'In repentance and rest you will be saved; in quietness and trust is your strength. But you were not willing.'
  • Isa 36:4 : 4 The Rabshakeh said to them, 'Say to Hezekiah: This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is this confidence you rely on?
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.