2 Corinthians 5:6
Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
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In Context
5Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
7for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Cross References
Psalms 27:3Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.
Psalms 119:19I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.
Isaiah 30:15For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,
2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
Philippians 3:20For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Hebrews 11:13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims 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 →