2 Corinthians 5:6

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2 Corinthians 5:6

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

We are always

Whilst

Hebrews 13:14

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We are always

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

Though an army encamp against me, my heart will not fear. Though war arise against me, [even] in this I [will] remain confident.

In the fear of Yahweh, there is confidence of strength, and for his children, there will be refuge.

For the Lord Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, said this: "In returning and rest you shall be saved; your strength shall be in quietness and in trust." But you were not willing,

And Rabshakeh said to them, "Now say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: "What [is] this confidence [in] which you trust?

Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has great reward.

Therefore [I, your] fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, [and] also a sharer of the glory that is going to be revealed, exhort the elders among you:

I, John, your brother and co-sharer in the affliction and kingdom and steadfastness in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.

Whilst

For we know that if our earthly house, the tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.

For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].

Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen [to] my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I [am] an alien with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.

I [am] a sojourner on the earth; do not hide your commands from me.

For our commonwealth exists in heaven, from which also we eagerly await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

These all died in faith without receiving the promises, but seeing them from a distance and welcoming [them], and admitting that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth.

For here we do not have a permanent city, but we seek the [city] that is to come.