2 Corinthians 5:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So we are always confident, even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord—

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Psalm 119:19

I live as an alien in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears.

Proverbs 14:26

In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and one’s children will have a refuge.

Isaiah 30:15

For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength. But you refused

Isaiah 36:4

The Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah: Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you base this reliance 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, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:8

Yes, we do have confidence, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

Hebrews 10:35

Do not, therefore, abandon that boldness of yours; it brings a great reward.

Hebrews 11:13

All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth,

Hebrews 13:14

For here we have no lasting city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

1 Peter 5:1

Now as an elder myself and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as one who shares in the glory to be revealed, I exhort the elders among you

Revelation 1:9

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