⁶ So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. ⁷ For ^(A)we walk by faith, not by sight. ⁸ We are confident, yes, ^(B)well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

^23 [a]For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a ^(A)desire to depart and be with Christ, which is ^(B)far better.