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


In Context

3 Yet so that we be found clothed, not naked.

4 For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burthened; because we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that that which is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

5 Now he that maketh us for this very thing, is God, who hath given us the pledge of the Spirit.

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

7 (For we walk by faith, and not by sight.)

8 But we are confident, and have a good will to be absent rather 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 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, —

The American 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: