Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 5:8We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
Hebrews 11:13All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
Treasury of Scripture
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
we are always.
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.
Psalm 27:3,4
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident…
Proverbs 14:26
In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
whilst.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
