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2 Corinthians 5:7

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

In Context

6Therefore always being confident, and knowing that while at home in the body we are absent from the Lord,

8And we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be at home near the Lord.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:9For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which LORD thy God gives thee.

1 Corinthians 13:12For now we see by polished metal, in dimness, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know just as also I was known.

2 Corinthians 4:18while we look not at things seen, but at things not seen. For things seen are temporal, but things not seen are eternal.

Hebrews 10:38But the righteous man will live from faith, and if he should withdraw, my soul is not pleased with him.

1 Peter 1:8Whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, not now seeing but believing, ye exult in inexpressible and glorified joy,

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 5:2-12

The Believer's Prospect beyond Death. ( a. d. 57.) 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up… Read the whole commentary →

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