9Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,


In Context

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

7 for through faith we walk, not through sight —

8 we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

9 Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

10 for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things done through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

11 having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;

2 Corinthians 5:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:9Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:9So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:9And therefore we labour, whether absent or present, to please him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:9Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:9Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted by him.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:9Why we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.