2 Corinthians 5:9

Absent From The Body And At Home With The Lord

⁸ so we are confident and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. ⁹ Therefore indeed we have as our ambition, whether at home [in the body] or absent [from the body], to be acceptable to him. ¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, in order that each one may receive back the [things] through the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Let Us

On Earth

Genesis 4:7

If you do well {will I not accept you}? But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. And its desire [is] for you, but you must rule over it."

Isaiah 56:7

I will bring them to {my holy mountain}; I will make them merry in my house of prayer. their burnt offerings and their sacrifices {will be accepted} on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples,"

John 6:27

Do not work for the food that perishes, but the food that remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has set his seal on this one."

Acts 10:35

but in every nation the one who fears him and who does what is right is acceptable to him.

Romans 14:8

For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore whether we live [or] whether we die, we are the Lord's.

Romans 14:18

For the one who serves Christ in this [way] [is] well-pleasing to God and approved by people.

Romans 15:20

And so, having as my ambition to proclaim the gospel where Christ has not been named, in order that I will not build on the foundation belonging to someone else,

1 Corinthians 9:26-27

Therefore I run in this way, not as [running] aimlessly; I box in this way, not as beating the air.

1 Corinthians 15:58

So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, [because you] know that your labor is not [in] vain in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:6

Therefore, [although we are] always confident and know that [while we] are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord--

2 Corinthians 5:8

so we are confident and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of the glory of his grace that he bestowed on us in the beloved,

Colossians 1:10

so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord, {to please [him] in all respects}, bearing fruit in every good deed and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Colossians 1:29

for which [purpose] also I labor, striving according to his working which is at work powerfully in me.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you and appeal to [you] in the Lord Jesus that, just as you have received from us how it is necessary for you to live and to please God, just as indeed you are living, that you progress even more.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to {your own business}, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you,

1 Timothy 4:10

For to this [end] we labor and suffer reproach, because we have put our hope in [the] living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

Hebrews 4:11

Therefore, let us make every effort to enter into that rest, in order that no one may fall in the same pattern of disobedience.

Hebrews 12:28

Therefore, [since we] are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be thankful, through which let us serve God acceptably, with awe and reverence.

2 Peter 1:10-11

Therefore, brothers, be zealous even more to make your calling and election secure, because [if you] do these [things], you will never ever stumble.

2 Peter 3:14

Therefore, dear friends, [because you] are waiting for these [things], make every effort to be found at peace, spotless and unblemished in him.