2 Corinthians 5:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Θαρροῦντες οὖν πάντοτε, καὶ εἰδότες ὅτι, ἐνδημοῦντες ἐν τῷ σώματι, ἐκδημοῦμεν ἀπὸ τοῦ Κυρίου:

Transliteration

Tharrountes therefore pantote, kai eidotes that, endēmountes in the sōmati, we ekdēmoumen from the Kyriou:

Grammar Details

*Tharrountes*: present active participle, nominative masculine plural - being confident/courageous
*pantote*: adverb - always/at all times
*kai*: conjunction - and/also
*eidotes*: perfect active participle, nominative masculine plural - knowing/having known
*endēmountes*: present active participle, nominative masculine plural - being at home/residing
*sōmati*: noun, dative neuter singular - body
*ekdēmoumen*: present active indicative, 1st person plural - we are absent/away from home
*Kyriou*: noun, genitive masculine singular - Lord

Word Meanings

*Tharrountes*: being confident/courageous/bold
*eidotes*: knowing/having known/being aware
*endēmountes*: being at home/residing/dwelling
*ekdēmoumen*: we are absent/away from home/abroad

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Heb 11:13 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Phil 3:20-21 : 20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Heb 10:35 : 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
Heb 13:14 : 14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
1 Pet 5:1 : 1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
Rev 1:9 : 9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Ps 27:3-4 : 3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. 4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
Ps 39:12 : 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear{H8685)} unto my cry; hold not thy peace{H8799)} at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
Prov 14:26 : 26 In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
Isa 30:15 : 15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, 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 our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 Cor 5:8 : 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

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