2 Corinthians 5:7

for through faith we walk, not through sight —

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, —

8we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:9for ye have not come in hitherto unto the rest, and unto the inheritance, which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;

1 Corinthians 13:12for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

2 Corinthians 4:18we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen [are] temporary, but the things not seen [are] age-during.

Hebrews 10:38and 'the righteous by faith shall live,' and 'if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,'

1 Peter 1:8whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,

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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