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

The Judgment Seat of Christ

Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. 10 (C)For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, (D)that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

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Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord (for we walk by faith, not by [a]sight); 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. Wherefore also we [b]make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him. 10 For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done [c]in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:7 Greek appearance.
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:9 Greek are ambitious. See Rom. 15:20 margin.
  3. 2 Corinthians 5:10 Greek through.