2 Corinthians 5:6
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
KJV
θαρροῦντες οὖν πάντοτε καὶ εἰδότες ὅτι ἐνδημοῦντες ἐν τῷ σώματι ἐκδημοῦμεν ἀπὸ τοῦ κυρίου,
Greek NT
Audentes igitur semper, scientes quoniam dum sumus in corpore, peregrinamur a Domino
Vulgate
Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord
ASV
Therefore having always confidence, knowing that while we are in the body we are absent from the Lord.
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
εἴδω
eido
verb · 317×
θαῤῥέω
tharreo
verb · 6×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
πάντοτε
pantote
adverb · 41×
σῶμα
soma
noun · 141×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἐκδημέω
ekdemeo
verb · 3×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐνδημέω
endemeo
verb · 3×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
Historic Christian voices
9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§769"The Church . . . will receive its perfection only in the glory of heaven,"179 at the time of Christ's glorious return. Until that day, "the Church progresses on her pilgrimage amidst this world's persecutions and God's consolations."180 Here below she knows that she is in exile far from the Lord, and longs for the full coming of the Kingdom, when she will "be united in glory w…
Chapter 18.—How Different the Uncertainty of the New Academy is from the Certainty of the Christian Faith. As regards the uncertainty about everything which Varro alleges to be the differentiating characteristic of the New Academy, the city of God thoroughly detests such doubt as madness. Regarding matters which it apprehends by the mind and reason it has most absolute certaint…
1. The Power of Harmony in Relation to Prayer. Again I say unto you that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them. Matthew 18:19 The word symphony is strictly applied to the harmonies of sounds in music. And there are indeed among musical sounds some accordant and others discordant. But the Evangelic Scripture is fam…
Having manifested what he was and what he is, he shows the great fruit of his confession; and being about to examine by what method God and the happy life may be found, he enlarges on the nature and power of memory. Then he examines his own acts, thoughts and affections, viewed under the threefold division of temptation; and commemorates the Lord, the one mediator of God and me…
Summa Theologica · 2 passages
The division of prophecy into its species Is the more excellent prophecy that which is without imaginative vision? The various degrees of prophecy Was Moses the greatest of the prophets? Can a comprehensor be a prophet? Did prophecy advance in perfection as time went on? Article 1. Whether prophecy is fittingly divided into the prophecy of divine predestination, of foreknowledg…
Is the soul of man carried away to things divine? Does rapture pertain to the cognitive or to the appetitive power? Did Paul when in rapture see the essence of God? Was he withdrawn from his senses? When in that state, was his soul was wholly separated from his body? What did he know, and what did he not know about this matter? Article 1. Whether the soul of man is carried away…
Cross-references
- 1Chr 29:15 — For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
- 1John 3:2 — Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
- 1Pet 1:17 — And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
- 2Cor 5:1 — For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
- 2Cor 5:8 — We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
- 2Cor 5:8 — We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
- 2Cor 5:9 — Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
- 2Cor 12:2 — I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
- Heb 10:35 — Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
- Heb 11:13 — These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the eart
- Heb 13:14 — For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
- John 14:3 — And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
- Phil 1:21 — For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
- Phil 3:20 — For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
- Prov 14:26 — In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
- Ps 27:3 — Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
- Ps 27:3 — Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
- Ps 39:12 — Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
- Ps 39:12 — Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
- Ps 119:19 — I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
- Rom 8:10 — And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.