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


In Context

3 if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.

4 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

5 Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

6 Therefore, we are always confident and know that while 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 courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home 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 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: