For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
2 Corinthians 5:6 - 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, 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. 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 strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.
In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.
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 were unwilling,
And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours?
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.