2 Corinthians 5:8

Absent From The Body And At Home With The Lord

⁷ For we guide our lives by faith, and not by what we see. ⁸ And in this confidence we would gladly leave our home in the body, and make our home with the Lord. ⁹ Therefore, whether in our home or absent from our home, our one ambition is to please him.

Good Courage

To the Lord

Matthew 25:21

'Well done, good, trustworthy servant!' said his master. 'You have been trustworthy with a small sum; now I will place a large one in your hands; come and share your master's joy!'

Matthew 25:23

'Well done, good, trustworthy servant!' said his master. 'You have been trustworthy with a small sum; now I will place a large one in your hands; come and share your master's joy!'

Luke 2:29

"Now, Lord, thou wilt let thy servant go, According to thy word, in peace,

John 14:3

And, since I go and prepare a place for you, I shall return and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am;

John 17:24

Father, my desire for all those whom thou has given me is that they may be with me where I am, so that they may see the honor which thou has given me; for thou didst love me before the beginning of the world.

Acts 21:13

It was then that Paul made the reply: "Why are you weeping and breaking my heart like this? For my part, I am ready not only to be bound, but even to suffer death at Jerusalem for the Name of the Lord Jesus."

2 Corinthians 5:6

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while our home is in the body, we are absent from our home with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:9

Therefore, whether in our home or absent from our home, our one ambition is to please him.

2 Corinthians 12:2-3

I know a man in union with Christ, who, fourteen years ago-- whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows-- was caught up (this man of whom I am speaking) to the third Heaven.

Philippians 1:20-24

And this will fulfil my earnest expectation and hope that I shall have no cause for shame, but that, with unfailing courage, now as hitherto, Christ will be honored in my body, whether by my life or by my death,

1 Thessalonians 4:17-18

Then those who died in union with Christ shall rise first; and afterwards we who are still living shall be caught up in the clouds, with them, to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall be for ever with the Lord.

2 Timothy 4:7-8

I have run the great Race; I have finished the Course; I have kept the Faith.

2 Peter 1:14-15

for I know that the time for this 'tent' of mine to be put away is soon coming, as our Lord Jesus Christ himself assured me.

2 Peter 3:11-12

Now, since all these things are in the process of dissolution, think what you yourselves ought to be--what holy and pious lives you ought to lead,

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, we are God's Children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is that, when it is revealed, we shall be like Christ; because we shall see him as he is.

Revelation 7:14-17

'My Lord,' I answered, 'it is you who know.' 'These,' he said, 'are they who come through the Great Persecution; they washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 22:3

'Every thing that is accursed will cease to be.' The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within it, and his servants will worship him;