2 Corinthians 5:6

American Standard Version (1901)

Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord

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  • Heb 11:13 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
  • Phil 3:20-21 : 20 For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, [that it may be] conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.
  • Heb 10:35 : 35 Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward.
  • Heb 13:14 : 14 For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after [the city] which is to come.
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I John, your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patience [which are] in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
  • Ps 27:3-4 : 3 Though a host should encamp against me, My heart shall not fear: Though war should rise against me, Even then will I be confident. 4 One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of Jehovah, And to inquire in his temple.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me.
  • Prov 14:26 : 26 In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence; And his children shall have a place of refuge.
  • Isa 30:15 : 15 For thus said the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. And ye would not:
  • Isa 36:4 : 4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

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    8 we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

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    1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

    2 For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:

    3 if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

    4 For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

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    5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

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