[a]Therefore we are always [b]bold, though we know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

(For we walk by [c]faith, and not by sight.)

Nevertheless, we are [d]bold, and love rather to remove out of the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:6 He inferreth upon that sentence which went next before, thus, Therefore, seeing that we know by the Spirit, that we are strangers so long as we are here, we patiently suffer this tarriance (for we are now so with God, that we behold him but by faith, and are therefore now absent from him) but so that we aspire and have a longing always to him: therefore also we behave ourselves so, that we may be acceptable to him, both while we live here, and when we go from hence to him.
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:6 He calleth them (bold) which are always resolved with a quiet and settled mind to suffer what dangers soever, nothing doubting, but their end shall be happy.
  3. 2 Corinthians 5:7 Faith of those things which we hope for, and not having God presently in our view.
  4. 2 Corinthians 5:8 And yet we are in such sort bold and do so pass on our pilgrimage with a valiant and quiet mind, that yet notwithstanding, we had rather depart hence to the Lord.

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