2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore, whether in our home or absent from our home, our one ambition is to please him.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
In Context
8And in this confidence we would gladly leave our home in the body, and make our home with the Lord.
Cross References
Genesis 4:7If you do what is right and good, can’t you hold your head up high? But if you do wrong, sin crouches at the door and longs to have you, but you must master it.”
John 6:27Work, not for the food that perishes, but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you; for on him the Father – God himself – has set the seal of his approval.”
Romans 14:8for, if we live, our life is for the Master, and, if we die, our death is for the Master. Whether, then, we live or die we belong to the Master.
Romans 15:20yet always with the ambition to tell the good news where Christ’s name had not previously been heard, so as to avoid building on another’s foundations.
1 Corinthians 15:58Therefore, my dear friends, stand firm, unshaken, always diligent in the Lord’s work, for you know that, in union with him, your toil is not in vain.
2 Corinthians 5:8And in this confidence we would gladly leave our home in the body, and make our home with the Lord.
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 →