2 Corinthians 5:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, --

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  • Heb 11:13 : 13 In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted `them', and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,
  • Phil 3:20-21 : 20 For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await -- the Lord Jesus Christ -- 21 who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.
  • Heb 10:35 : 35 Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,
  • Heb 13:14 : 14 for we have not here an abiding city, but the coming one we seek;
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 Elders who `are' among you, I exhort, who `am' a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker,
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I, John, who also `am' your brother, and fellow-partner in the tribulation, and in the reign and endurance, of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ;
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 for sojourners we `are' before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow `are' our days on the land, and there is none abiding.
  • Ps 27:3-4 : 3 Though a host doth encamp against me, My heart doth not fear, Though war riseth up against me, In this I `am' confident. 4 One `thing' I asked of Jehovah -- it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And `to' my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I `am' with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 A sojourner I `am' on earth, Hide not from me Thy commands.
  • Prov 14:26 : 26 In the fear of Jehovah `is' strong confidence, And to His sons there is a refuge.
  • Isa 30:15 : 15 For thus said the Lord Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel: `In returning and rest ye are saved, In keeping quiet and in confidence is your might, And ye have not been willing.
  • Isa 36:4 : 4 And Rabshakeh saith unto them, `Say ye, I pray you, unto Hezekiah, `Thus said the great king, the king of Asshur, What `is' this confidence in which thou hast confided?
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

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  • 2 Cor 5:7-9
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    7for through faith we walk, not through sight --

    8we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

    9Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

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    1For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,

    2for also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves,

    3if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked,

    4for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the life.

    5And He who did work us to this self-same thing `is' God, who also did give to us the earnest of the Spirit;

  • 11This one -- let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, `we are' in deed.

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    11having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;

    12for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have `something' in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

    13for whether we were beside ourselves, `it was' to God; whether we be of sound mind -- `it is' to you,

  • 5for if even in the flesh I am absent -- yet in the spirit I am with you, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;

  • 2 Cor 4:7-12
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    7And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;

    8on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair;

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

    10at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested,

    11for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,

    12so that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.

  • 3for I indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so wrought this thing:

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    16wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;

    17for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --

    18we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen `are' temporary, but the things not seen `are' age-during.

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    2and I beseech `you', that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;

    3for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,

  • 2 Cor 6:9-10
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    9as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death;

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

  • 14knowing that He who did raise up the Lord Jesus, us also through Jesus shall raise up, and shall present with you,

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    4and such trust we have through the Christ toward God,

    5not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency `is' of God,

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    6And now Timotheus having come unto us from you, and having declared good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us always, desiring much to see us, as we also `to see' you,

    7because of this we were comforted, brethren, over you, in all our tribulation and necessity, through your faith,

    8because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;

  • 58so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

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    7and our hope `is' stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings -- so also of the comfort.

    8For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above `our' power, so that we despaired even of life;

    9but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,

  • 12So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,

  • 5for also we, having come to Macedonia, no relaxation hath our flesh had, but on every side we are in tribulation, without `are' fightings, within -- fears;

  • 17And we, brethren, having been taken from you for the space of an hour -- in presence, not in heart -- did hasten the more abundantly to see your face in much desire,

  • 6having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform `it' till a day of Jesus Christ,

  • 4and we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that the things that we command you ye both do and will do;

  • 20For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await -- the Lord Jesus Christ --

  • 1Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,

  • 15for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living -- who do remain over to the presence of the Lord -- may not precede those asleep,

  • 5because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

  • 16I rejoice, therefore, that in everything I have courage in you.

  • 9and we are persuaded, concerning you, beloved, the things that are better, and accompanying salvation, though even thus we speak,

  • 6so that we do boldly say, `The Lord `is' to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'

  • 14having known that soon is the laying aside of my tabernacle, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ did shew to me,