Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
We are always
Bible References
We are always
2 Corinthians 5:8
and are well pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
Hebrews 10:35
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.
1 Peter 5:1
The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellowelder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a sharer in the glory that is to be revealed;
Revelation 1:9
I John, your brother, and companion in the affliction and kingdom and endurance in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, on account of the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus.
Whilst
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that, if our earthly tenthabitation be destroyed, we have a building provided by God, a house not made with hands, everlasting, in the heavens.
Philippians 3:20
For the country of which we are citizens is heaven, whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the promised blessings, but having seen them from afar, and greeted them, and having professed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
Hebrews 13:14
for here we have no abiding city, but are seeking that which is to come.