Verse 8
2 Corinthians 5:8
Darby Translation
8
we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.
Original Language Text
greek
θαρροῦμεν δὲ καὶ εὐδοκοῦμεν μᾶλλον ἐκδημῆσαι ἐκ τοῦ σώματος καὶ ἐνδημῆσαι πρὸς τὸν κύριον·
English Translation
We are confident and greatly desire rather to be away from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 5 Context
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For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God (Elohim),...
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For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which [is] from heaven;
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if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked.
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For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclot...
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Now he that has wrought us for this very thing [is] God (Elohim), who also has given to us the earne...
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Therefore [we are] always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the...
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(for we walk by faith, not by sight;)
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we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.
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Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him.
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10
For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the thin...
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11
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men, but have been manifested to God (Elohim),...
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[For] we do not again commend ourselves to you, but [we are] giving to you occasion of boast in our...
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For whether we are beside ourselves, [it is] to God (Elohim); or are sober, [it is] for you.
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14
For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have d...
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and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for...
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So that *we* henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according t...
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So if any one [be] in Christ, [there is] a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all...
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and all things [are] of the God (Elohim) who has reconciled us to himself by [Yashua (Jesus)] Christ...
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how that God (Elohim) was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their o...
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We are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God (Elohim) as [it were] beseeching by us, we entreat for...
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Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that *we* might become God (Elohim)'s righteousness in...
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