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


In Context

3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed on, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

5 Now he that has worked us for the selfsame thing is God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit.

6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst 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 confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:6Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:6Therefore having always confidence, knowing that, while we are in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:6Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:6Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:6having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, —