2 Corinthians 5:7
For we guide our lives by faith, and not by what we see.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
In Context
8And in this confidence we would gladly leave our home in the body, and make our home with the Lord.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 13:12As yet we see, in a mirror, dimly, but then – face to face! As yet my knowledge is incomplete, but then I will know in full, as I have been fully known.
2 Corinthians 4:18We, all the while, gaze not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is transient, but what is unseen is imperishable.
Hebrews 10:38and through faith the righteous will find life, but, if anyone draws back, my heart can find no pleasure in them.’
1 Peter 1:8Though you have never seen him, yet you love him; though you do not even now see him, yet you believe in him, and exalt with a triumphant happiness too great for words,
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 →