2 Corinthians 5:7
(for we walk by faith, not by sight;)
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
In Context
8we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:9For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
1 Corinthians 13:12For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been 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 that are seen [are] for a time, but those that are not seen eternal.
Hebrews 10:38But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him.
1 Peter 1:8whom, having not seen, ye love; on whom [though] not now looking, but believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and filled with [the] 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 →