2 Corinthians 5:7

for we walk by faith, not by sight:

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6Therefore, we are always confident, especially since we know that, while living in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

8we are confident, indeed, and would be pleased rather to depart from the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 13:12Now we see through a mirror, obscurely; but then, face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know, even as I am known.

2 Corinthians 4:18while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen: for the things seen are temporal; but the things not seen are eternal.

Hebrews 10:38But the just by faith shall live; and if he draw back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.

1 Peter 1:8whom, though you have not seen him, yet you love; on whom not now looking, but believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory,

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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