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2 Corinthians 5:6-8
New English Translation
2 Corinthians 5:6-8
New English Translation
6 Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth[a] we are absent from the Lord— 7 for we live[b] by faith, not by sight. 8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away[c] from the body and at home with the Lord.
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- 2 Corinthians 5:6 tn Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).
- 2 Corinthians 5:7 tn Grk “we walk.”
- 2 Corinthians 5:8 tn Or “be absent.”
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