For we are sojourners and new arrivals before you, as all our fathers were. Our days upon the earth are like a shadow, and there is no delay.
2 Corinthians 5:6 - 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. 更多版本King 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. 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. English Standard Version 2016 So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, |
For we are sojourners and new arrivals before you, as all our fathers were. Our days upon the earth are like a shadow, and there is no delay.
O Lord, do not take your tender mercies far from me. Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me.
In the fear of the Lord is the faithfulness of strength, and there shall be hope for his sons.
For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: If you return and are quiet, you shall be saved. Your strength will be found in silence and in hope. But you are not willing!
And Rabshakeh said to them: "Tell Hezekiah: Thus says the great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this faith in which you believe?
For we know that, when our earthly house of this habitation is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.
So we are confident, and we have the good will to be on a pilgrimage in the body, so as to be present to the Lord.
All of these passed away, adhering to faith, not having received the promises, yet beholding them from afar and saluting them, and confessing themselves to be sojourners and guests upon the earth.
For in this place, we have no everlasting city; instead, we seek one in the future.
Therefore, I beg the elders who are among you, as one who is also an elder and a witness of the Passion of Christ, who also shares in that glory which is to be revealed in the future:
I, John, your brother, and a sharer in the tribulation and in the kingdom and in patient endurance for Christ Jesus, was on the island which is called Patmos, because of the Word of God and the testimony to Jesus.