2 Corinthians 5:5-8

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 – 5:7 for we live ⁴  by faith, not by sight. 5:8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away ⁵  from the body and at home with the Lord.

[5:5]  ¹ tn Grk “for this very thing.”

[5:5]  ² tn Or “first installment,” “pledge,” “deposit” (see the note on the phrase “down payment” in 1:22).

[5:6]  ³ tn Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).

[5:7]  ⁵ tn Grk “we walk.”

[5:8]  ⁷ tn Or “be absent.”