2 Corinthians 5:6

Webster's Bible (1833)

Being therefore always of good courage, and 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{TR adds "and being convinced of"} them and embraced 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, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
  • Heb 10:35 : 35 Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
  • Heb 13:14 : 14 For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God's Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, 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 I will be confident. 4 One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, That I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, To see Yahweh's beauty, And to inquire in his temple.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, A foreigner, as all my fathers were.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.
  • Prov 14:26 : 26 In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, And he will be a refuge for his children.
  • Isa 30:15 : 15 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. You would not:
  • Isa 36:4 : 4 Rabshakeh said to them, Say you 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 the earthly house of our tent is 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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    7for we walk by faith, not by sight.

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

    9Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

  • 2 Cor 5:1-5
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    1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

    2For most assuredly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;

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

    4For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

    5Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

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

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    11Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

    12For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

    13For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

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

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    7But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

    8We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

    9pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

    10always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

    11For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

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

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    3For I most assuredly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

  • 2 Cor 4:16-18
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    16Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

    17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

    18while we don't look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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    2Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

    3For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh;

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    9as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, 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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    14knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

  • 2 Cor 3:4-5
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    4Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;

    5not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

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    6But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;

    7for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

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

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    58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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    7Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.

    8For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

    9Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

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

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    5For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

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    17But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

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    6being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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

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    20For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

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    1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don't faint.

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    15For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

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    5and that our Gospel came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

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    16I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.

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    9But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.

  • Heb 13:6
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    6So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

  • 2 Pet 1:14
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    14knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.