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2 Corinthians 5:8
“We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.”
Verse in context — 2 Corinthians 5
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Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
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for we walk by faith, not by sight.
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We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
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Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
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For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
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Paul’s defense of his ministry and encouragement in hardship.
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