while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Being, therefore, always of good courage, and knowing that, while dwelling in the body, we are absent from the Lord

And his tender affections are more abundantly toward you, while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

For this cause, I write these things while absent; that I may not, when present, deal sharply according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not casting down.