2 Corinthians 5:6

2 Corinthians 5:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
• New International Version (NIV)Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.
• English Standard Version (ESV)So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
• New King James Version (NKJV)So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.

Context of 2 Corinthians 5:6

4For while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5And it is God who has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come. Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord. 7For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:6 word by word

Θαρροῦντες οὖν πάντοτε καὶ εἰδότες ὅτι ἐνδημοῦντες ἐν τῷ σώματι, ἐκδημοῦμεν ἀπὸ τοῦ κυρίου·Read the interlinear

• Thereforeοὖνoun · therefore/thenG3767
• we are always confidentπάντοτεpantote · alwaysG3842
• we are always confidentθαρρέωtharrheō · be confidentG2292
• althoughκαίkai · andG2532
• we knowεἴδωeidō · to perceive: understandG1492
• thatὅτιhoti · that/since: thatG3754
• while we are at homeἐνδημέωendēmeō · be homeG1736
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• theὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• bodyσῶμαsōma · bodyG4983
• we are awayἐκδημέωekdēmeō · be awayG1553
• fromἀπόapo · away fromG575
• Lordκύριοςkurios · lord: GodG2962

Cross-references for 2 Corinthians 5:6

• 2 Corinthians 5:8We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
• Psalms 27:3Though an army encamps around me, my heart will not fear; though a war breaks out against me, I will keep my trust.
• Proverbs 14:26He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.
• Isaiah 30:15For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence— but you were not willing.”
• Isaiah 36:4The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?
• Hebrews 10:35So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.
• 1 Peter 5:1As a fellow elder, a witness of Christ’s sufferings, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed, I appeal to the elders among you:
• Revelation 1:9I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance that are in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and my testimony about Jesus.
• 2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
• 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
• Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
• Psalms 119:19I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
• Philippians 3:20But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
• 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.
• Hebrews 13:14For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

Commentaries on 2 Corinthians 5:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6We are always confident - ̔ · We are always full of courage; we never despond; we know where our help lies; and, having the earnest of the Spirit, we have the full assurance of hope. Whilst we are at home in the body, etc. - The original words in this sentence are very emphatic: signifies to dwell among one's own people; , to be a sojourner among a strange people. Heaven is the home of every genuine Christian, and is claimed by them as such; see Philemon…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Therefore we are always confident - The word used here ( ̓̔͂ tharrountes) means to be of good cheer. To have good courage, to be full of hope. The idea is, that Paul was not dejected, cast down, disheartened, discouraged. He was cheerful and happy. He was patient in his trials, and diligent in his calling. He was full of hope, and of the confident expectation of heaven; and this filled him with cheerfulness and with joy. Tyndale renders it: “we are always…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-10The idea of eternal hope is promising, with heavenly bodies replacing our dying ones. The God of resurrection will raise us and present us with all believers (4:14). Paul faced challenges in Ephesus, which inspired this statement about resurrection hope (1:8–11). His body's weakness reminded him of life after death, when our earthly body will be taken down in death and decay (see 1 Corinthians 15:42–57; Philippians 3:20–21).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. Translate as Greek, "Being therefore always confident and knowing," &c. He had intended to have made the verb to this nominative, "we are willing" (rather, "well content"), but digressing on the word "confident" (2Co 5:6, 7), he resumes the word in a different form, namely, as an assertion: "We are confident and well content." "Being confident ... we are confident" may be the Hebraic idiom of emphasis; as Ac 7:34, Greek, "Having seen, I have seen,"…Read the comment

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Commentaries on 2 Corinthians 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings