6Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
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For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: …
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)The apostle in these verses pursues the argument of the former chapter, concerning the grounds of their courage and patience under afflictions. And, I. He mentions their expectation, and desire, and assurance, of eternal happiness after death, 2 Cor. 5:1-5. Observe particularly, 1. The believer’s expectation of eternal happiness after death, 2 Cor. 5:1. He does not only know, or is well assured by…
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