2 Corinthians 5:6

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while our home is in the body, we are absent from our home with the Lord.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if our tent--that earthly body which is now our home--is taken down, we have a house of God's building, a home not made by hands, imperishable, in Heaven.

2 Corinthians 5:8

And in this confidence we would gladly leave our home in the body, and make our home with the Lord.

Hebrews 10:35

Do not, therefore, abandon the confidence that you have gained, for it has a great reward awaiting it.

Hebrews 11:13

All these died sustained by faith. They did not obtain the promised blessings, but they saw them from a distance and welcomed the sight, and they acknowledged themselves to be only aliens and strangers on the earth.

Hebrews 13:14

for here we have no permanent city, but are looking for the City that is to be.

1 Peter 5:1

As for the older men among you, who bear office in the Church, I, their fellow-Officer, and a witness to the sufferings of the Christ, who shall also share in the glory that is to be revealed--

Revelation 1:9

I, John, who am your Brother, and who share with you in the suffering and kingship and endurance of Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos, for the sake of the Message of God and the testimony to Jesus.