2 Corinthians 5:7

(For we walk by faith, and not by sight.)

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6Therefore having always confidence, knowing that, while we are in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

8But we are confident, and have a good will to be absent rather from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:9For until this present time you are not come to refit, and to the possession, which the Lord your God will give you.

1 Corinthians 13:12We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know I part; but then I shall know even as I am known.

2 Corinthians 4:18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen, are temporal; but the things which are not seen, are eternal.

Hebrews 10:38But my just man liveth by faith; but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul.

1 Peter 1:8Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now, though you see him not, you believe: and believing shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified;

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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