2 Corinthians 5:4

5:4 For we groan while we are in this tent, since we are weighed down, because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

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 we are absent from the Lord –

sn See the note in 5:1 on the phrase the tent we live in.

tn Or “we are burdened.”

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