For we are sojourners before You, mere transients like our fathers. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, without security.
2 Corinthians 5:6 - Tree of Life Version Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So then, we are always full of good and hopeful and confident courage; we know that while we are at home in the body, we are abroad from the home with the Lord [that is promised us]. American Standard Version (1901) Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord Common English Bible So we are always confident, because we know that while we are living in the body, we are away from our home with the Lord. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, we are ever confident, knowing that, while we are in the body, we are on a pilgrimage in the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore having always confidence, knowing that, while we are in the body, we are absent from the Lord. |
For we are sojourners before You, mere transients like our fathers. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, without security.
With rebukes You chasten one for iniquity and You consume like a moth what he finds pleasure in. Surely all humanity is but a vapor. Selah
In the fear of Adonai one has strong confidence. It will be a refuge for His children.
For thus says Adonai Elohim, the Holy One of Israel: “By repentance and rest you are saved, in quietness and trust is your strength— but you were not willing.”
So the Rab-shakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: ‘What is this confidence you’ve relied on?
For we know that if the tent, our earthly home, is torn down, we have a building from God—a home not made with human hands, eternal in the heavens.
We are confident, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and at home with the Lord.
These all died in faith without receiving the things promised—but they saw them and welcomed them from afar, and they confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the one that is to come.
Therefore I appeal to the elders among you—as a fellow elder and witness of Messiah’s sufferings, and a partaker also of the glory about to be revealed—
I, John, your brother and fellow partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patient endurance that are in Yeshua, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Yeshua.