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2 Corinthians 5:8 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. "
2 Corinthians 5:8
Verse in Context
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6 Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
8 We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
9 Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
10 For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
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2 Corinthians 5:1
"For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens."
2 Corinthians 5:2
"For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,"
2 Corinthians 5:3
"if indeed being clothed, we will not be found naked."
2 Corinthians 5:4
"For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life."
2 Corinthians 5:5
"Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit."
2 Corinthians 5:6
"Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;"
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