2 Corinthians 5:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while 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 afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
  • Phil 3:20-21 : 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself.
  • Heb 10:35 : 35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.
  • Heb 13:14 : 14 For here we do not have a continuing city, but we seek the one to come.
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 The elders 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 am also your brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island called Patmos, for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
  • Ps 27:3-4 : 3 Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war should rise against me, in this I will be confident. 4 One thing I have desired of the LORD, that I will 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 inquire in His temple.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
  • Prov 14:26 : 26 In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence, and His children will have a place of refuge.
  • Isa 30:15 : 15 For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength: but you would not.
  • Isa 36:4 : 4 And Rabshakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this in which you trust?
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if our earthly body, this tabernacle, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 We are confident, I say, and prefer to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

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    7For we walk by faith, not by sight.

    8We are confident, I say, and prefer to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

    9Therefore we strive, that whether present or absent, we may be pleasing to him.

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    1For we know that if our earthly body, this tabernacle, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

    2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our dwelling which is from heaven:

    3If indeed, being clothed, we shall not be found naked.

    4For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that mortality might be swallowed up by life.

    5Now he who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

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    11Let such a person consider this, that as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.

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    11Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I hope are well known also in your consciences.

    12For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you an opportunity to boast on our behalf, so that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

    13For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

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    5For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing to see your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

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    7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us.

    8We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

    9Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

    10Always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also might be made manifest in our body.

    11For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

    12So then, death works in us, but life in you.

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    3For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has done this deed, as though I were present.

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    16For this reason we do not lose heart; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

    17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

    18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporary; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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    2But I plead with you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence by which I think to be bold against some who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

    3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh:

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    9As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

    10As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

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    4And such trust we have through Christ toward God:

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    6But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, as we also to see you:

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    8For now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

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    7And our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.

    8For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed beyond measure, above strength, so much that we despaired even of life.

    9But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

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    12Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

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    5For, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; outside were conflicts, inside were fears.

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    17But we, brothers, having been taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored more eagerly to see your face with great desire.

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    6Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ:

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    4And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command you.

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    15For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep.

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    16I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.

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    9But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this manner.

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    14Knowing that shortly I must put off this tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.