Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore, whether we be at home, or from home, we endeavor our selves to please him.
New American Standard Bible
Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be
King James Version
Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
Holman Bible
Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing
International Standard Version
So whether we are at home or away from home, our goal is to be pleasing to him.
A Conservative Version
Therefore also we aspire, whether at home or away from home, to be well-pleasing to him.
American Standard Version
Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.
Amplified
Therefore, whether we are at home [on earth] or away from home [and with Him], it is our [constant] ambition to be pleasing to Him.
An Understandable Version
So, we are also eager to please God very much, whether we are at home [in our body] or away from it.
Anderson New Testament
For this reason we also endeavor, whether we remain in the body or depart from it, to be acceptable to him.
Bible in Basic English
For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him.
Common New Testament
So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.
Daniel Mace New Testament
wherefore I studiously endeavour, whether staying in it, or departing out of it, to be acceptable to him.
Darby Translation
Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him.
Godbey New Testament
Therefore we are truly ambitious, whether being present or absent, to be well pleasing unto him.
Goodspeed New Testament
So whether I am at home or away from it, it is my ambition to please him.
John Wesley New Testament
Therefore we are ambitious, whether present, or absent, to be well-pleasing to him.
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore also let us seek the honour, whether being at home, whether being absent, to be pleasing to him.
King James 2000
Therefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore indeed we have as our ambition, whether at home [in the body] or absent [from the body], to be acceptable to him.
Modern King James verseion
Therefore we are also laboring to be well-pleasing to Him, whether at home or away from home.
Moffatt New Testament
Hence also I am eager to satisfy him, whether in the body or away from it;
Montgomery New Testament
And for this reason I also make it home with the Lord.
NET Bible
So then whether we are alive or away, we make it our ambition to please him.
New Heart English Bible
Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
Noyes New Testament
Wherefore we also strive that, whether at home or absent, we may be approved by him.
Sawyer New Testament
Wherefore also we strive, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore also we are ambitious - whether at home, or away from home, to be, well-pleasing unto him.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
wherefore also our ambition is, that whether dwelling in the body, or out of the body, we may be acceptable to him.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Therefore, whether in our home or absent from our home, our one ambition is to please him.
Webster
Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted by him.
Weymouth New Testament
And for this reason also we make it our ambition, whether at home or in exile, to please Him perfectly.
Williams New Testament
So whether I am at home or away from home, it is my constant ambition to please Him.
World English Bible
Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
Worrell New Testament
Wherefore, we also make it our aim??hether being at home or being from home??o be well-pleasing to Him.
Worsley New Testament
Wherefore we are also ambitious, whether dwelling in the body, or out of it, to be well-pleasing to Him.
Youngs Literal Translation
Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,
Interlinear
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 5:9
Images 2 Corinthians 5:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Absent From The Body And At Home With The Lord
8 Nevertheless we are of good comfort, and had rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. 9 Wherefore, whether we be at home, or from home, we endeavor our selves to please him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every man may receive the works of his body according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Cross References
Genesis 4:7
But and if thou dost evil, by and by thy sin lieth open in the door. Notwithstanding, let it be subdued unto thee, and see thou rule it."
Isaiah 56:7
Them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar. For my house shall be a house of prayer for all people.
John 6:27
Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat that endureth unto everlasting life, which meat the son of man shall give unto you. For him hath God the father sealed."
Acts 10:35
but in all people, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Romans 14:8
If we live, we live to be at the Lord's will. And if we die, we die at the Lord's will.
Romans 14:18
For whosoever in these things serveth Christ, pleaseth well God: and is commended of men.
Romans 15:20
So have I enforced myself to preach the gospel: not where Christ was named, lest I should have built on another man's foundation,
1 Corinthians 9:26-27
I therefore so run, not as at an uncertain thing. So fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my dear brethren, be ye steadfast and unmovable, always rich in the works of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know how that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:6
Therefore, we are always of good cheer, and know well that as long as we are at home in the body we are absent from God.
2 Corinthians 5:8
Nevertheless we are of good comfort, and had rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
Ephesians 1:6
to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherewith he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Colossians 1:10
that ye might walk worthy of the Lord in all things that please, being fruitful in all good works and increasing in the knowledge of God
Colossians 1:29
Wherein I also labour and strive, even as far forth as his working worketh in me mightily.
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Furthermore, we beseech you brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that ye increase more and more, even as ye have received of us, how ye ought to walk and to please God.
1 Thessalonians 4:11
and that ye study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you:
1 Timothy 4:10
For therefore we labour and suffer rebuke, because we believe in the living God, which is the saviour of all men: but specially of those that believe.
Hebrews 4:11
Let us study therefore to enter into that rest; lest any man fall, after the same example, into unbelief:
Hebrews 12:28
Wherefore if we receive a kingdom which is not moved, we have grace, whereby we may serve God and please him with reverence and godly fear.
2 Peter 1:10-11
Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence for to make your calling and election sure. For if ye do such things, ye shall never err.
2 Peter 3:14
Wherefore, dearly beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot and undefiled: