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 ¹  we are absent from the Lord –

2 Corinthians 5:8

5:8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away ²  from the body and at home with the Lord.

Romans 14:8

14:8 If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

¹ tn Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).

² tn Or “be absent.”