So we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. For we walk by faith,(A) not by sight.(B) In fact, we are confident, and we would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.(C) Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing(D) to him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat(E) of Christ,(F) so that each may be repaid(G) for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

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Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that (A)while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— for (B)we walk by faith, not by [a]sight— but we are of good courage and (C)prefer rather to be absent from the body and (D)to be at home with the Lord. Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be (E)pleasing to Him. 10 For we must all appear before (F)the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive compensation for [b]his deeds done through the body, in accordance with what he has done, whether good or bad.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:7 Or appearance
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:10 Lit the things