2 Corinthians 5:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.”
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“Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:”
King James Version · Public Domain“Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, --”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Corinthians 5:6 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
- Psalms 27:3Though an army encamps around me, my heart will not fear; though a war breaks out against me, I will keep my trust.
- Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
- Psalms 119:19I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
- Proverbs 14:26He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.
- Isaiah 30:15For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence— but you were not willing.”
- Isaiah 36:4The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?
- 2 Corinthians 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
- 2 Corinthians 5:8We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
- Philippians 3:20But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
- Hebrews 10:35So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.
- Hebrews 11:13All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
- Hebrews 13:14For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
- 1 Peter 5:1As a fellow elder, a witness of Christ’s sufferings, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed, I appeal to the elders among you:
- Revelation 1:9I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance that are in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and my testimony about Jesus.
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