2 Corinthians 5:8

So we have a cheerful confidence, and we anticipate with greater delight being banished from the body and going home to the Lord.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

In Context

7for we are living a life of faith, and not one of sight.

9And for this reason also we make it our ambition, whether at home or in exile, to please Him perfectly.

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Cross References

Matthew 25:23"`Good and trustworthy servant, you have done well,' his master replied; `you have been trustworthy in the management of a little, I will put you in charge of much: share your master's joy.'

John 14:3And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, that where I am you also may be.

Acts 21:13His reply was, "What can you mean by thus breaking my heart with your grief? Why, as for me, I am ready not only to go to Jerusalem and be put in chains, but even to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

2 Corinthians 5:9And for this reason also we make it our ambition, whether at home or in exile, to please Him perfectly.

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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