2 Corinthians 5:6

Therfore we are alwaye of good chere and knowe well that as longe as we are at home in the body we are absent from God.

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

In Context

5He that hath ordeyned vs for this thynge ys god which very same hath geven vnto vs the ernest of the sprete.

7For we walke in fayth and se not.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 5:1We knowe suerly yf oure erthy mancion wherin we now dwell were destroyed that we have a bildinge ordeyned of god an habitacion not made with hondes but eternall in heven.

Philippians 3:20But oure conversacion is in heven from whence we loke for a saveour enen the lorde Iesus Christ

Hebrews 11:13And they all dyed in fayth and receaved not the promyses: but sawe them a farre of and beleved them and saluted them: and confessed that they were straungers and pilgrems on the erthe.

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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