2 Corinthians 5:1

Living by Faith, Not by Sight

5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, ¹  is dismantled, ²  we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:6

5:6 Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth ³  we are absent from the Lord –

2 Corinthians 5:8

5:8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away ⁴  from the body and at home with the Lord.

¹ sn The expression the tent we live in refers to “our earthly house, our body.” Paul uses the metaphor of the physical body as a house or tent, the residence of the immaterial part of a person.

² tn Or “destroyed.”

³ tn Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).

⁴ tn Or “be absent.”