2 Corinthians 5:7

(for we walk by faith, not by sight),

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6Being therefore always confident, and knowing that while at home in the body we are absent from the Lord,

8we are confident, and are well pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 13:12For we see now in a mirror, obscurely; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know fully, even as I also am fully 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 10:38Now, the just shall live by faith; but if he draw back, my soul has no pleasure in him.

1 Peter 1:8whom having not seen ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye 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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