2 Corinthians 5:7

for I am walking by faith, not by sight.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6Therefore I am always of good courage, because I well know that while I am at home in the body, I am in banishment from the Lord,

8So I have good courage, and am well pleased rather, to be in banishment from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 13:12For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

2 Corinthians 4:18while I am gazing not at things seen, but at things unseen; for things seen are temporal, but things unseen are eternal.

Hebrews 10:38But it is by faith that my Righteous One will live, And if he draws back, my soul takes no pleasure in him.

1 Peter 1:8Him you love, though you have never seen him; in him you ever believe, though even now you see him not, and you are rejoicing with joy 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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