Then being always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord;

then we are confident and we are pleased rather to go away from home out of the body, and to come home to the Lord.

I say this lest perhaps Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared. We (not to say you) would then be put to shame in this confident boasting.

being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ,

And most of the brothers in the Lord, becoming confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the Word without fear.