5:5 Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose 1 is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment. 2 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 tnGrk “for this very thing.”
2 tn Or “first installment,” “pledge,” “deposit” (see the note on the phrase “down payment” in 1:22).
3 tnGrk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).