2 Corinthians 5:9

For this reason we also endeavor, whether we remain in the body or depart from it, to be acceptable to him.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

In Context

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

10For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that each may receive his reward for the things done in his body, according to what he has done, whether good or evil.

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Cross References

John 6:27Labor not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to life eternal, which the Son of man will give you; for him has God the Father attested.

Romans 14:8For if we live, we live to the Lord; or if we die, we die to the Lord. Whether, therefore, we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

Romans 15:20so earnestly desirous have I been to preach the gospel, not where Christ had been named, lest I should build on another man’s foundation;

1 Corinthians 15:58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:8we are confident, indeed, and would be pleased rather to depart from the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

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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