2 Corinthians 5:9

Absent From The Body And At Home With The Lord

⁸ we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord. ⁹ Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him, ¹⁰ for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things done through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

Let Us

On Earth

Genesis 4:7

Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.'

Isaiah 56:7

I have brought them unto My holy mountain, And caused them to rejoice in My house of prayer, Their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices Are for a pleasing thing on Mine altar, For My house, 'A house of prayer,' Is called for all the peoples.

John 6:27

work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- even God.'

Acts 10:35

but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;

Romans 14:8

for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;

Romans 14:18

for he who in these things is serving the Christ, is acceptable to God and approved of men.

Romans 15:20

and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named -- that upon another's foundation I might not build --

1 Corinthians 9:26-27

I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

1 Corinthians 15:58

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:6

having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, --

2 Corinthians 5:8

we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,

Colossians 1:10

to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

Colossians 1:29

for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

1 Timothy 4:10

for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men -- especially of those believing.

Hebrews 4:11

May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

Hebrews 12:28

wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

2 Peter 1:10-11

wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

2 Peter 3:14

wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,