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With the Lord Immediately
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that this verse teaches that upon death, a believer's soul is immediately 'at home with the Lord.' This directly counters ideas like soul sleep or an unconscious waiting state. Scholars explain this is a state of active, joyful fellowship with Jesus Christ, which is the very essence of heaven.
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2 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Corinthians 5:8
18th Century
Theologian
We are confident (2 Corinthians 5:6). We are cheerful, courageous, and ready to bear our trial. Tyndale renders it, "We are of…
AT Robertson
On 2 Corinthians 5:8
We are of good courage (θαρρουμεν). Good word for cheer and same root as θαρσεω (Matthew 9:2,22). Cheer up.
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Corinthians 5:8
19th Century
Bishop
We are confident, I say.—The sentence begun in 2 Corinthians 5:6 and partially broken off is resumed. The apparent mea…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 2 Corinthians 5:6–9
19th Century
Preacher
Knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight:) we are confident, I say, an…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Corinthians 5:8
With the assured hope of receiving a glorified body (v.1) and with the pledge of his transformation in the presence and activity of the Spirit with…
John Calvin
On 2 Corinthians 5:8
16th Century
Theologian
We are confident, I say. He again repeats what he had said concerning the confidence of the pious—that they are so far from breaking down …
John Gill
On 2 Corinthians 5:8
17th Century
Pastor
We are confident, I say, and willing rather
We are cheerful in our present state, being assured of future happiness;…
Matthew Henry
On 2 Corinthians 5:1–8
17th Century
Minister
The believer not only is well assured by faith that there is another and a happy life after this one ends, but he has good hope, through grace, of …