2 Corinthians 5:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Therefore, whether we are at home [on earth away from Him] or away from home [and with Him], we are constantly ambitious and strive earnestly to be pleasing to Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁹ So our goal is to be acceptable to him, whether we are at home or away from home.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And thus we struggle, whether absent or present, to please him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And therefore we labour, whether absent or present, to please him.

2 Corinthians 5:9 Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door: and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

Isaiah 56:7

even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar: for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all peoples.

John 6:27

Work not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.

Acts 10:35

but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to him.

Romans 14:18

For he that herein serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved of men.

Romans 14:8

For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

Romans 15:20

yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build upon another man's foundation;

1 Corinthians 15:58

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:6

Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord

2 Corinthians 5:8

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.

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:

Colossians 1:10

to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Colossians 1:29

whereunto I labour also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

1 Timothy 4:10

For to this end we labour and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe.

Hebrews 12:28

Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:

Hebrews 4:11

Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.

2 Peter 3:14

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.