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2 Corinthians 5:8

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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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  1. 2 Corinthians 5:6

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

  2. 2 Corinthians 5:7

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

  3. 2 Corinthians 5:9

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

  4. 2 Corinthians 5:10

    For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.