2 Corinthians 5:6

New International Version

Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Psalm 119:19

I am a stranger on earth; do not hide your commands from me.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, Lord, listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. I dwell with you as a foreigner, a stranger, as all my ancestors were.

Proverbs 14:26

Whoever fears the Lord has a secure fortress, and for their children it will be a refuge.

Isaiah 30:15

This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.

Isaiah 36:4

The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: “ ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours?

2 Corinthians 5:1

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

2 Corinthians 5:8

We are confident, I say, 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; it will be richly rewarded.

Hebrews 11:13

All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.

Hebrews 13:14

For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

1 Peter 5:1

To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed:

Revelation 1:9

I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.