2 Corinthians 5:6
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while our home is in the body, we are absent from our home with the Lord.
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5And he who has prepared us for this change is God, who has also given us his Spirit as a pledge.
7For we guide our lives by faith, and not by what we see.
Cross References
Psalms 27:3Though against me a host should encamp, yet my heart would be fearless: though battle should rise up against me, still would I be trustful.
Psalms 119:19But a guest am I on the earth: hide not your commandments from me.
2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if our tent – that earthly body which is now our home – is taken down, we have a house of God’s building, a home not made by hands, imperishable, in heaven.
Philippians 3:20But we are citizens of heaven, and from heaven we expect a savior to come, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 11:13All these died sustained by faith. They did not obtain the promised blessings, but they saw them from a distance and welcomed the sight, and they acknowledged themselves to be only foreigners and strangers on the earth.
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 →