So then, being always filled with good courage and confident hope, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—

(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent adrift on the sea;

apart from the things without -- the crowding upon me that is daily -- the care of all the assemblies.

And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not; God knoweth),