2 Corinthians 5:7

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

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In The King James Version

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

In Context

6Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

8We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:9for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the LORD your God gives you.

1 Corinthians 13:12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

2 Corinthians 4:18while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Hebrews 10:38But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

1 Peter 1:8whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

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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