| 2 Corinthians 5:8 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | We are confident and prefer to live away from this body and to live with the Lord.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. |
| ASV: | we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord. |
| BBE: | We are without fear, desiring to be free from the body, and to be with the Lord. |
| DBY: | we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. |
| ERV: | we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord. |
| WEY: | So we have a cheerful confidence, and we anticipate with greater delight being banished from the body and going home to the Lord. |
| WBS: | We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. |
| WEB: | We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord. |
| YLT: | we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord. |
| 2 Corinthians 5:8 Cross References |
| XREF: | John 12:26 "If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
Philippians 1:23 But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better; (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 5:8 We are {f} confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
(f) And yet we are in such a manner confident and do so pass on our pilgrimage with a valiant and peaceful mind, that yet nonetheless we had rather depart from here to the Lord. |
| PNT: | 5:8 We are confident. In the face of every peril, because we know that death, an absence from the body, would be
to be present with the Lord. Note here the doctrine of the immaterial nature of the human spirit. It puts aside the body to be clothed with a new garment. It is absent from the body but present with the Lord. The body is not essential to its conscious existence. It does not sleep because the body sleeps. |
| WES: | 5:8 Present with the Lord - This demonstrates that the happiness of the saints is not deferred till the resurrection. |
| MHC: | 5:1-8 The believer not only is well assured by faith that there is another and a happy life after this is ended, but he has good hope, through grace, of heaven as a dwelling-place, a resting-place, a hiding-place. In our Father's house there are many mansions, whose Builder and Maker is God. The happiness of the future state is what God has prepared for those that love him: everlasting habitations, not like the earthly tabernacles, the poor cottages of clay, in which our souls now dwell; that are mouldering and decaying, whose foundations are in the dust. The body of flesh is a heavy burden, the calamities of life are a heavy load. But believers groan, being burdened with a body of sin, and because of the many corruptions remaining and raging within them. Death will strip us of the clothing of flesh, and all the comforts of life, as well as end all our troubles here below. But believing souls shall be clothed with garments of praise, with robes of righteousness and glory. The present graces and comforts of the Spirit are earnests of everlasting grace and comfort. And though God is with us here, by his Spirit, and in his ordinances, yet we are not with him as we hope to be. Faith is for this world, and sight is for the other world. It is our duty, and it will be our interest, to walk by faith, till we live by sight. This shows clearly the happiness to be enjoyed by the souls of believers when absent from the body, and where Jesus makes known his glorious presence. We are related to the body and to the Lord; each claims a part in us. But how much more powerfully the Lord pleads for having the soul of the believer closely united with himself! Thou art one of the souls I have loved and chosen; one of those given to me. What is death, as an object of fear, compared with being absent from the Lord! |
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