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 –
5:7 for we live 2 by faith, not by sight.
5:8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away 3 from the body and at home with the Lord.
1 tnGrk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).