2 Corinthians 5:6

2 Corinthians chapter 5 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord

King James Version · 1611

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

American Standard Version · 1901

Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord

v.5Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

v.6This passage

v.7(for we walk by faith, not by sight);

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Hebrews 13:14
For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which is to come.
Psalms 27:3
Though a host should encamp against me, My heart shall not fear: Though war should rise against me, Even then will I be confident.
Psalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
2 Corinthians 5:8
we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.