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2 Corinthians 5:7

For by faith we walk, and not by sight.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6For therefore do we know and are persuaded, that so long as we remain in the body we are in pilgrimage from our Lord.

8On this account we confide, and long to pass away from the body, and to be with our Lord.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 13:12But now as in a mirror we see in a figure; but then- the face before the face. Now I know a little of much; but then shall I know even as I am known.

2 Corinthians 4:18While we look not on these which are seen, but at those which are unseen. For the seen are of time, but the unseen are of eternity.

Hebrews 10:38But the just by the faith of me shall live; but if he become weary, my soul delighteth not in him.

1 Peter 1:8whom you have not seen and (yet) love, and in whose faith you exult with glorious joy that is not spoken:

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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