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We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
We are confident (2 Corinthians 5:6). We are cheerful, courageous, and ready to bear our trial. Tyndale renders it, "We are of…
We are of good courage (θαρρουμεν). Good word for cheer and same root as θαρσεω (Matthew 9:2,22). Cheer up.
19th Century
Anglican
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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Baptist
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…
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…
16th Century
Protestant
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 …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
We are confident, I say, and willing rather We are cheerful in our present state, being assured of future happiness;…
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 …
13th Century
Catholic
Here the author reveals the source of the supernatural desire for a heavenly dwelling. The cause of our natural desire to not be unclothed is that …
