2 Corinthians 5:6

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Therefore having always confidence, knowing that, while we are in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

Hebrews 11:13

All these died according to faith, not having received the promises, but beholding them afar off, and saluting them, and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth.

Revelation 1:9

I John, your brother and your partner in tribulation, and in the kingdom, and patience in Christ Jesus, was in the island, which is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus.

1 Peter 5:1

The ancients therefore that are among you, I beseech, who am myself also an ancient, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ: as also a partaker of that glory which is to be revealed in time to come:

Hebrews 10:35

Do not therefore lose your confidence, which hath a great reward.

2 Corinthians 5:8

But we are confident, and have a good will to be absent rather from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Isaiah 36:4

And Rabsaces said to them: Tell Ezechias: Thus saith the great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence wherein thou trustest?

Isaiah 30:15

For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: If you return and be quiet, you shall be saved. In silence and in hope shall your strength be. And you would not:

Proverbs 14:26

In the fear of the Lord is confidence of strength, and there shall be hope for his children.

Psalm 39:12

Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. Our days upon earth are as a shadow: and there is no stay.

Hebrews 13:14

For we have not here a lasting city, but we seek one that is to come.