2 Corinthians 5:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

2 Corinthians 5:7 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 11:1-27
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. …
2 Corinthians 4:18
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Romans 8:24-25
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? …
1 Peter 1:8
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
Hebrews 10:38
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

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Commentary

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. we walk--in our Christian course here on earth. not by sight--Greek, “not by appearance.” Our life is governed by faith in our immortal hope; not by the outward specious appearance of present things [Tittmann, Greek Synonyms of the New Testament]. Compare “apparently,” the Septuagint, “by appearance,” Nu 12:8. Wahl supports English Version. 2Co 4:18 also confirms it (compare Ro 8:24; 1Co 13:12,…