2 Corinthians 5:6

New English Translation

Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord –

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

Psalm 119:19

I am like a foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O Lord! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am dependent on you, like one residing outside his native land; I am at your mercy, just as all my ancestors were.

Proverbs 14:26

In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and it will be a refuge for his children.

Isaiah 30:15

For this is what the master, the Lord, the Holy One of Israel says: “If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered; if you calmly trusted in me you would find strength, but you are unwilling.

Isaiah 36:4

The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is your source of confidence?

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:8

Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

Hebrews 10:35

So do not throw away your confidence, because it has great reward.

Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

Hebrews 13:14

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

1 Peter 5:1

So as your fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings and as one who shares in the glory that will be revealed, I urge the elders among you:

Revelation 1:9

I, John, your brother and the one who shares with you in the persecution, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.