2 Corinthians 5:6
Therefore we are alway bolde, though we knowe that whiles we are at home in the bodie, we are absent from the Lord.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
7(For we walke by faith, and not by sight.)
Cross References
Psalms 27:3Though an hoste pitched against me, mine heart should not be afraide: though warre be raised against me, I will trust in this.
Psalms 119:19I am a stranger vpon earth: hide not thy commandements from me.
Isaiah 30:15For thus sayd the Lord God, the Holy one of Israel, In rest and quietnes shall ye be saued: in quietnes and in confidence shall be your strength, but ye would not.
2 Corinthians 5:1For we knowe that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed, we haue a building giuen of God, that is, an house not made with handes, but eternall in the heauens.
Philippians 3:20But our conuersation is in heauen, from whence also we looke for the Sauiour, euen the Lord Iesus Christ,
Hebrews 11:13All these died in faith, and receiued not the promises, but sawe them a farre off, and beleeued them, and receiued them thankefully, and 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 →