2 Corinthians 5:8

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Summary

2 Corinthians 5:8

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

And willing

Present

General references

1 Corinthians 13:10

Bible References

And willing

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

I knew a man in Christ before fourteen years, (whether in the body, I know not; whether out of the body, I know not: God knows;) such a one having been carried off even to the third heaven.

Now Lord, thou wilt loose thy servant, according to thy word, in peace :

And Paul answered, What do ye weeping and breaking my heart? for I not only to be bound, but to die at Jerusalem, have prepared for the name of the Lord Jesus.

According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death.

I have contended earnestly the good contest, I have completed the course, I have kept the faith:

Knowing that the laying aside of my tent is swift; as also our Lord Jesus Christ manifested to me.

Therefore all these being dissolved, of what race ought ye to be in holy turning round and devotion,

Present

Wherefore also let us seek the honour, whether being at home, whether being absent, to be pleasing to him.

Thou wilt cause me to know the way of life: abundance of joys with thy face; favors in thy right hand forever.

I in justice shall see thy face: I shall be satisfied in awaking with thine appearance.

And I always with thee: thou didst hold by my right hand.

And his lord said to him, Well, good and faithful servant: thou west faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many; enter into the joy of thy lord.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, again I come, and I will receive you to myself; that where I am, ye might be also.

O Father, those thou hast given me, I will that where I am these also be with me: that they might behold my glory, which thou gavest me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

Then we the living being left shall be snatched up together with them in the clouds, to the meeting of the Lord in the air: and so we shall always be with the Lord.

Dearly beloved, now are we the children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we shall be: and we know that, if he be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

And I said to him, Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they coming out of great pressure, and they washed their robes, and whitened their robes in the blood of the Lamb.

And there shall be no more curse: and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in her; and his servants shall serve him:

General references

And when the perfected come, then shall that by parts be left unemployed.