2nd Corinthians Chapter 5 verse 6 Holy Bible

ASV 2ndCorinthians 5:6

Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord
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BBE 2ndCorinthians 5:6

So, then, we are ever without fear, and though conscious that while we are in the body we are away from the Lord,
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DARBY 2ndCorinthians 5:6

Therefore [we are] always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord,
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KJV 2ndCorinthians 5:6

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
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WEB 2ndCorinthians 5:6

Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
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YLT 2ndCorinthians 5:6

having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, --
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - Therefore we are always confident; literally, being of good courage. The sentence in the Greek is unfinished (an anacoluthon), but is resumed after the parenthesis by the repetition, "we are of good courage." Always (2 Corinthians 4:8). We are at home in the body. The tent is pitched in the desert, and even the pillar of fire can only shine through its folds. Yet the tent may become brighter and brighter as life goes on. "To me the thought of death is terrible,Having such hold on life. To you it is notMore than a step into the open airOut of a tent already luminousWith light which shines through its transparent folds."(Longfellow.) Absent from the Lord (John 14:2, 3). Christ is indeed with us here and always; but the nearness of presence and the clearness of vision in that future life will be so much closer and brighter, that here, by comparison, we are absent from him altogether.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) Therefore we are always confident.--The Greek construction is participial: being therefore always confident; the sentence not being completed, but begun again with the same verb in 2Corinthians 5:8. The two verbs for being "at home" and "absent" are not found elsewhere in the New Testament. The latter conveys the special idea of being absent from a man's own home or country. The knowledge of the fact that follows is given as the ground of the Apostle's confidence. It makes him long for the change; not wishing for death, but content to accept it, as it will bring him nearer to his Lord.