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2 Corinthians 5:6

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

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  1. 2 Corinthians 5:4

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

  2. 2 Corinthians 5:5

    Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

  3. 2 Corinthians 5:7

    (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

  4. 2 Corinthians 5:8

    We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

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