2 Corinthians 5:6-8

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.

2 Corinthians 5:1

Living by Faith, Not by Sight

5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, ⁴  is dismantled, ⁵  we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 1:12

Paul Defends His Changed Plans

1:12 For our reason for confidence ⁶  is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives ⁷  and sincerity which are from God ⁸  – not by human wisdom ⁹  but by the grace of God – we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more ¹⁰  toward you.

2 Corinthians 1:2

1:2 Grace and peace to you ¹¹  from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

2 Corinthians 2:16

2:16 to the latter an odor ¹²  from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things? ¹³ 

Ezekiel 8:1-3

A Desecrated Temple

8:1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, ¹⁴  as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting in front of me, the hand ¹⁵  of the sovereign Lord seized me. ¹⁶  8:2 As I watched, I noticed ¹⁷  a form that appeared to be a man. ¹⁸  From his waist downward was something like fire, ¹⁹  and from his waist upward something like a brightness, ²⁰  like an amber glow. ²¹  8:3 He stretched out the form ²²  of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind ²³  lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem ²⁴  by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue ²⁵  which provokes to jealousy was located.

Ezekiel 11:24

11:24 Then a wind ²⁶  lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia, ²⁷  in the vision given to me by the Spirit of God.

Then the vision I had seen went up from me.

Acts 8:39-40

8:39 Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any more, but ²⁸  went on his way rejoicing. ²⁹  8:40 Philip, however, found himself ³⁰  at Azotus, ³¹  and as he passed through the area, ³²  he proclaimed the good news ³³  to all the towns ³⁴  until he came to Caesarea. ³⁵ 

Acts 22:17

22:17 When ³⁶  I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance ³⁷ 

Philippians 1:22-23

1:22 Now if I am to go on living in the body, ³⁸  this will mean productive work ³⁹  for me, yet I don’t know which I prefer: ⁴⁰  1:23 I feel torn between the two, ⁴¹  because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far,

Revelation 1:10

1:10 I was in the Spirit ⁴²  on the Lord’s Day ⁴³  when ⁴⁴  I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

Revelation 4:2

4:2 Immediately I was in the Spirit, ⁴⁵  and ⁴⁶  a throne was standing ⁴⁷  in heaven with someone seated on it!

[5:6]  ¹ tn Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).

[5:7]  ² tn Grk “we walk.”

[5:8]  ³ tn Or “be absent.”

[5:1]  ⁴ sn The expression the tent we live in refers to “our earthly house, our body.” Paul uses the metaphor of the physical body as a house or tent, the residence of the immaterial part of a person.

[5:1]  ⁵ tn Or “destroyed.”

[1:12]  ⁶ tn Or “for boasting.”

[1:12]  ⁷ tc Two viable variants exist at this place in the text: ἁγιότητι (Jagiothti, “holiness”) vs. ἁπλότητι (Japlothti, “pure motives”). A confusion of letters could well have produced the variant (TCGNT 507): In uncial script the words would have been written agiothti and aplothti. This, however, does not explain which reading created the other. Overall ἁπλότητι, though largely a Western-Byzantine reading (א² D F G Ï lat sy), is better suited to the context; it is also a Pauline word while ἁγιότης (Jagioth") is not. It also best explains the rise of the other variants, πραότητι (praothti, “gentleness”) and {σπλάγχνοις} (splancnoi", “compassion”). On the other hand, the external evidence in favor of ἁγιότητι is extremely strong (Ì⁴⁶ א* A B C K P Ψ 0121 0243 33 81 1739 1881 al co). This diversity of mss provides excellent evidence for authenticity, but because of the internal evidence listed above, ἁπλότητι is to be preferred, albeit only slightly.

[1:12]  ⁸ tn Grk “pure motives and sincerity of God.”

[1:12]  ⁹ tn Or “not by worldly wisdom.”

[1:12]  ¹⁰ tn Or “and especially.”

[1:2]  ¹¹ tn Grk “Grace to you and peace.”

[2:16]  ¹² tn The same Greek word (ὀσμή, osmh) translated “odor” here (in relation to the stench of death) has been translated “fragrance” in 2:14 and in the next phrase of the present verse. The word itself can describe a smell or odor either agreeable or disagreeable depending on the context (L&N 79.45).

[2:16]  ¹³ sn These things refer to the things Paul is doing in his apostolic ministry.

[8:1]  ¹⁴ tc The LXX reads “In the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth of the month.”

[8:1]  ¹⁵ tn Or “power.”

[8:1]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “fell upon me there,” that is, God’s influence came over him.

[8:2]  ¹⁷ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb (so also throughout the chapter).

[8:2]  ¹⁸ tc The MT reads “fire” rather than “man,” the reading of the LXX. The nouns are very similar in Hebrew.

[8:2]  ¹⁹ tc The MT reads “what appeared to be his waist and downwards was fire.” The LXX omits “what appeared to be,” reading “from his waist to below was fire.” Suggesting that “like what appeared to be” belongs before “fire,” D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:277) points out the resulting poetic symmetry of form with the next line as followed in the translation here.

[8:2]  ²⁰ tc The LXX omits “like a brightness.”

[8:2]  ²¹ tn See Ezek 1:4.

[8:3]  ²² tn The Hebrew term is normally used as an architectural term in describing the pattern of the tabernacle or temple or a representation of it (see Exod 25:8; 1 Chr 28:11).

[8:3]  ²³ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

[8:3]  ²⁴ map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:3]  ²⁵ tn Or “image.”

[11:24]  ²⁶ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

[11:24]  ²⁷ tn Heb “to Chaldea.”

[8:39]  ²⁸ tn BDAG 189 s.v. γάρ 2 indicates that under certain circumstances γάρ (gar) has the same meaning as δέ (de).

[8:39]  ²⁹ sn Note that the response to the gospel is rejoicing (joy, cf. Acts 11:23; 13:48).

[8:40]  ³⁰ tn Or “appeared.”

[8:40]  ³¹ sn Azotus was a city on the coast of southern Palestine, known as Ashdod in OT times.

[8:40]  ³² tn The words “the area” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

[8:40]  ³³ tn Or “he preached the gospel.”

[8:40]  ³⁴ tn Or “cities.”

[8:40]  ³⁵ sn Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1.

[22:17]  ³⁶ tn Grk “It happened to me that.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[22:17]  ³⁷ tn BDAG 309 s.v. ἔκστασις 2 has “γενέσθαι ἐν ἐκστάσει fall into a trance Ac 22:17.”

[1:22]  ³⁸ tn Grk “flesh.”

[1:22]  ³⁹ tn Grk “fruit of work”; the genitive ἔργου (ergou) is taken as an attributed genitive in which the head noun, καρπός (karpos), functions attributively (cf. ExSyn 89-91).

[1:22]  ⁴⁰ tn Grk “what I shall prefer.” The Greek verb αἱρέω (Jairew) could also mean “choose,” but in this context such a translation is problematic for it suggests that Paul could perhaps choose suicide (cf. L&N 30.86).

[1:23]  ⁴¹ tn Grk “I am hard-pressed between the two.” Cf. L&N 30.18.

[1:10]  ⁴² tn Or “in the spirit.” “Spirit” could refer either to the Holy Spirit or the human spirit, but in either case John was in “a state of spiritual exaltation best described as a trance” (R. H. Mounce, Revelation [NICNT], 75).

[1:10]  ⁴³ tn Concerning the phrase κυριακῇ ἡμέρᾳ (kuriakh Jhmera) BDAG 576 s.v. κυριακός states: “pert. to belonging to the Lord, the Lord’s…κ. ἡμέρᾳ the Lord’s day (Kephal. I 192, 1; 193, 31…) i.e. certainly Sunday (so in Mod. Gk….) Rv 1:10 (WStott, NTS 12, ’65, 70-75).”

[1:10]  ⁴⁴ tn The conjunction καί (kai) is not introducing a coordinate thought, but one that is logically subordinate to the main verb ἐγενόμην (egenomhn).

[4:2]  ⁴⁵ tn Or “in the spirit.” “Spirit” could refer either to the Holy Spirit or the human spirit, but in either case John was in “a state of spiritual exaltation best described as a trance” (R. H. Mounce, Revelation [NICNT], 75).

[4:2]  ⁴⁶ tn Grk “and behold.” The Greek word ἰδού (idou) at the beginning of this statement has not been translated because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1).

[4:2]  ⁴⁷ tn BDAG 537 s.v. κεῖμαι 2 gives the translation “stand” for the term in this verse.