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2 Corinthians 5:9

James Moffatt - New Testament

Hence also I am eager to satisfy him, whether in the body or away from it;

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so that you may lead a life that is worthy of the Lord and give him entire satisfaction. May you be fruitful and increase in the doing of all good, as you thus know God!

he who serves Christ on these lines, is acceptable to God and esteemed by men.

Then, beloved, as you are expecting this, be eager to be found by him unspotted and unblemished in serene assurance.

that "we toil and strive because our hope is fixed upon the living God, the Saviour of all men" — of believers in particular.

also, endeavour to live quietly, attend to your own business, and — as we charged you — work with your hands,

Finally, brothers, we beg and beseech you in the Lord Jesus to follow our instructions about the way you are to live so as to satisfy God; you are leading that life, but you are to excel in it still further.

Well then, my beloved brothers, hold your ground, immovable; abound in work for the Lord at all times, for you may be sure that in the Lord your labour is never thrown away.

my ambition always being to preach it only in places where there had been no mention of Christ's name, that I might not build on foundations laid by others,

if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. Thus we are the Lord's whether we live or die;

but that he who reverences Him and lives a good life in any nation is welcomed by Him.

Therefore let us render thanks that we get an unshaken realm; and in this way let us worship God acceptably —

Let us be eager then to enter that Rest, in case anyone falls into the same sort of disobedience.

I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.

and in this confidence I would fain get away from the body and reside with the Lord.

Come what may, then, I am confident; I know that while I reside in the body I am away from the Lord

Work for no perishing food, but for that lasting food which means eternal life; the Son of man will give you that, for the Father, God, has certified him."

redounding to the praise of his glorious grace bestowed on us in the Beloved,




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