5:4 For we groan while we are in this tent, 1 since we are weighed down, 2 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 3 we are absent from the Lord –
1 sn See the note in 5:1 on the phrase the tent we live in.
2 tn Or “we are burdened.”
3 tnGrk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).