2 Corinthians 5:6

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Therfore we are alway of good cheare, and knowe, that as long as we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lorde.

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  • Heb 11:13 : 13 These all dyed according to fayth, not hauing receaued the promises, but seing them a farre of, and beleuyng, and salutyng, and confessyng that they were straungers and pilgrimes on the earth.
  • Phil 3:20-21 : 20 But our conuersation is in heauen, from whence also we loke for the sauiour, the Lorde Iesus Christe: 21 Who shall chaunge our vyle body, that it may be fashioned lyke vnto his glorious body, according to the working wherby he is able to subdue all thynges vnto hym selfe.
  • Heb 10:35 : 35 Cast not awaye therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of rewarde.
  • Heb 13:14 : 14 For here haue we no continuyng citie: but we seke one to come.
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 The elders which are among you, I exhort, whiche am also an elder, & a wytnesse of the afflictions of Christe, and also a partaker of the glory that shalbe opened:
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I Iohn, your brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdome and patience of Iesus Christe, was in the Ile that is called Pathmos, for ye worde of God, and for the witnessyng of Iesus Christe.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we be but straungers before thee, and soiourners, as were al our fathers: Our dayes on the earth also are but as a shadowe, and there is none abiding.
  • Ps 27:3-4 : 3 Though an hoast of men were layde in campe against me, yet shall not mine heart be afraide: and though there rose vp warre against me, yet I wyll put my trust in this. 4 I haue desired one thyng of God, whiche once agayne I wyll earnestly require: euen that I may dwell in the house of God all the dayes of my life, to beholde the beautifulnes of God, and to seeke it in his temple.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Heare my prayer O God, and geue eares to my crying, holde not thy peace at my teares: for I am a strauger with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers were.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a straunger vpon earth: hyde not thy commaundementes from me.
  • Prov 14:26 : 26 In the feare of the Lord is an assured strength: and his children are vnder a sure defence.
  • Isa 30:15 : 15 For thus saith the Lorde God, euen the holy one of Israel: In repentaunce and in rest shall ye be safe, in quietnesse and sure confidence shalbe your strength, but ye haue had no list thereto.
  • Isa 36:4 : 4 And Rabsakeh sayde vnto them, Tell Hezekia that the great kyng saith thus vnto hym: What presumption is this that thou trustest vnto?
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we knowe, that yf our earthly house of this tabernacle were destroyed, we haue a building of God, an habitation not made with handes, but eternall in heauen.
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 Neuerthelesse, we are of good comfort, and had rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lorde.

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    7(For we walke by fayth, not after outwarde appearaunce.)

    8Neuerthelesse, we are of good comfort, and had rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lorde.

    9Wherfore, whether we be at home, or from home, we endeuour our selues to be accepted vnto hym.

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    1For we knowe, that yf our earthly house of this tabernacle were destroyed, we haue a building of God, an habitation not made with handes, but eternall in heauen.

    2For therfore sygh we, desiryng to be clothed with our house whiche is from heauen:

    3So yet, yf that we be founde clothed, and not naked.

    4For we that are in this tabernacle sigh, & being burdened because we would not be vnclothed, but would be clothed vpo, that mortalitie might be swalowed vp of lyfe.

    5He that hath ordeyned vs for this thyng is God, which hath also geuen vnto vs the earnest of the spirite.

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    11Let hym that is such, thynke on this wise: that as we are in worde by letters, when we are absent, such are we in deede when we are present.

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    11Seing then that we knowe the feare of the Lorde, we fare fayre with men: For we are knowen well enough vnto God. I trust also that we are knowen in your consciences.

    12For we prayse not our selues agayne vnto you, but geue you an occasion to reioyce of vs, that ye may haue somwhat agaynst them which reioyce in the face, and not in the heart.

    13For yf we be to feruent, to God are we to feruent: Or yf we kepe measure, for your cause kepe we measure.

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    5For though I be absent in the fleshe, yet am I with you in the spirite, ioying and beholdyng your order, and your stedfast fayth in Christe.

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    7But we haue this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellencie of the power be Gods, and not ours.

    8We are troubled on euery syde, yet are we not without shyft. We are in pouertie, but not vtterly without somewhat.

    9We suffer persecution, but are not forsaken therin. We are cast downe, but we perisshe not.

    10We alwayes beare about in the body the dying of the Lorde Iesus, that the lyfe of Iesus myght also appeare in our bodie.

    11For we which lyue, are alwayes deliuered vnto death for Iesus sake, that the lyfe also of Iesu myght appeare in our mortall flesshe.

    12So then, death worketh in vs, but life in you.

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    3For I veryly, as absent in body, but present in spirite, haue determined alredie, as though I were present, concernyng hym that hath done this deede.

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    16Wherefore we are not weryed: But though our outwarde man perishe, yet the inwarde man is renued day by day.

    17For our exceedyng tribulation which is momentanie & lyght, prepareth an exceedyng and an eternall wayght of glorie vnto vs.

    18Whyle we loke not on the thynges whiche are seene, but on the thynges which are not seene. For the thynges which are seene, are temporall: but the things which are not seene, are eternal.

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    2I beseche you, that I neede not to be bolde when I am present, with that same boldnesse, wherwith I am supposed to haue ben bolde, agaynst some, which repute vs as though we walked accordyng to the fleshe.

    3For though we walke in the fleshe, yet we do not warre according to ye flesh.

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    9As vnknowen, and yet knowen, as dying, and beholde we lyue, as chastened, and not kylled,

    10As sorowyng, and yet alway merie: as poore, and yet make many riche: as hauyng nothyng, and yet possessyng all thynges.

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    14For we knowe, that he which raysed vp the Lorde Iesus, shall rayse vp vs also by the meanes of Iesus, and shall set vs with you.

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    4Such trust haue we through Christe to Godwarde.

    5Not that we are sufficiet of our selues to thynke any thyng as of our selues: but our ablenesse is of God,

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    6But nowe lately, when Timotheus came from you vnto vs, and brought vs good tydynges of your fayth and loue, and howe that ye haue good remembraunce of vs alwayes, desiryng to see vs, as we also to see you:

    7Therefore brethren we were comforted ouer you, in all our aduersitie and necessitie, because of your fayth.

    8For nowe we lyue, yf ye stande fast in the Lorde.

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    58Therfore my beloued brethren, be ye stedfast, vnmouable, alwayes riche in the worke of the Lorde, forasmuch as ye knowe that your labour is not in vayne in the Lorde.

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    7And our hope is stedfast, insomuch as we knowe howe that as ye are partakers of ye afflictions, so ye be partakers also of the consolation.

    8For we woulde not brethren haue you ignoraunt of our trouble, whiche came vnto vs in Asia: For we were greeued out of measure, passyng strength, so greatly, that we dispayred euen of lyfe.

    9Yea, we receaued the sentence of death in our selues, that we should not put our trust in our selues, but in God, whiche rayseth the dead:

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    12Wherfore, my dearely beloued, as ye haue alwayes obeyed, not as in my presence only, but nowe much more in my absence, worke out your owne saluation with feare and tremblyng.

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    5For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesshe had no rest, but we were troubled on euery syde: Outward was fyghtyng, inward was feare.

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    17Forasmuch brethren, as we are kept from you for a short season, in person, not in heart, we enforced ye more to see you personally with great desire.

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    6And beyng perswaded of this same thyng, that he which hath begun good worke in you, wyll perfourme it vntyll the day of Iesus Christe,

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    4And we haue confidence in the Lorde to youwarde, that ye both do, and wyll do the thynges whiche we commaunde you.

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    20But our conuersation is in heauen, from whence also we loke for the sauiour, the Lorde Iesus Christe:

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    1Therfore, seyng that we haue such a ministerie, as we haue receaued mercie, we faynt not:

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    15For this say we vnto you in the worde of the Lorde, that we whiche lyue, remayning vnto the comyng of the Lord, shall not preuent them which sleepe.

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    5For our Gospell came not vnto you in worde only, but also in power, and in the holy ghost, and in much certayntie, as ye knowe after what maner we were among you for your sake.

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    16I reioyce that I may be bolde in you in all thynges.

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    9Neuerthelesse, deare frendes, we haue perswaded our selues better thynges of you, and thynges whiche accompanie saluation, though we thus speake.

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    6So that we may boldely saye, the Lorde is my helper, and I wyll not feare what man way do vnto me.

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    14Forasmuch as I am sure that shortly I must put of this my tabernacle, euen as our Lorde Iesus Christe shewed me.