2 Corinthians 5:7
(For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
In Context
8We are without fear, desiring to be free from the body, and to be with the Lord.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:9For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.
1 Corinthians 13:12For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.
2 Corinthians 4:18While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Hebrews 10:38But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
1 Peter 1:8To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words 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 →