2 Corinthians 5:6 - The Scriptures 1998

⁶ Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Master –

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ So then, we are always full of good and hopeful and confident courage; we know that while we are at home in the body, we are abroad from the home with the Lord [that is promised us].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord

Common English Bible

⁶ So we are always confident, because we know that while we are living in the body, we are away from our home with the Lord.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Therefore, we are ever confident, knowing that, while we are in the body, we are on a pilgrimage in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:6 Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

“For we are sojourners and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without permanence.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner in the earth; Do not hide Your commands from me.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O יהוה, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Proverbs 14:26

In the fear of יהוה  is strong trust, And His children have a place of refuge.

Isaiah 30:15

For thus said the Master יהוה, the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕ

Isaiah 36:4

The Raḇ

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the tent of our earthly house, is destroyed, we have a building from Elohim, a house not made with hands, everlasting in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:8

we are of good courage, and are well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Master.

Hebrews 10:35

Do not, then, lose your boldness, which has great reward.

Hebrews 11:13

In belief all these died, not having received the promises,but seeing them from a distance, welcomed and embraced them, and confessed that they were aliens and strangers on the earth.

Hebrews 13:14

For we have no lasting city here, but we seek the one coming.

1 Peter 5:1

Therefore, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Messiah, and also a sharer of the esteem that is to be revealed, I appeal to the elders among you:

Revelation 1:9

I, Yoḥ