2 Corinthians 5:9
Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 4:7Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.'
John 6:27work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal — [even] God.'
Romans 14:8for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;
Romans 15:20and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named — that upon another's foundation I might not build —
1 Corinthians 15:58so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:8we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
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 →