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

And we are confident, and are contented rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home in the Lord.

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

For this I write these things being absent, that being present I should not wound severely, according to the power which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.