And are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of them who are in darkness,

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

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

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 many of the brethren in the Lord, becoming confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

Lest perhaps if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, you) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.