2 Corinthians 5:6

New American Bible - revised edition

So we are always courageous, although we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

For before you we are strangers and travelers, like all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without a future.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.

Psalm 39:12

You chastise man with rebukes for sin; like a moth you consume his treasures. Every man is but a breath. Selah

Proverbs 14:26

The fear of the Lord is a strong defense, a refuge even for one’s children.

Isaiah 30:15

For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: By waiting and by calm you shall be saved, in quiet and in trust shall be your strength. But this you did not will.

Isaiah 36:4

The commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you base this trust of yours?

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if our earthly dwelling, a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a dwelling not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

2 Corinthians 5:8

Yet we are courageous, and we would rather leave the body and go home to the Lord.

Hebrews 10:35

Therefore, do not throw away your confidence; it will have great recompense.

Hebrews 11:13

All these died in faith. They did not receive what had been promised but saw it and greeted it from afar and acknowledged themselves to be strangers and aliens on earth,

Hebrews 13:14

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the one that is to come.

1 Peter 5:1

So I exhort the presbyters among you, as a fellow presbyter and witness to the sufferings of Christ and one who has a share in the glory to be revealed.

Revelation 1:9

I, John, your brother, who share with you the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance we have in Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos because I proclaimed God’s word and gave testimony to Jesus.