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2 Corinthians 5:8-9
New English Translation

8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away[a] from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 So then whether we are alive[b] or away, we make it our ambition to please him.[c]

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  1. 2 Corinthians 5:8 tn Or “be absent.”
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:9 tn Grk “whether we are at home” [in the body]; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).
  3. 2 Corinthians 5:9 tn Grk “to be pleasing to him.”
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