2 Corinthians 5:8-9

5:8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away ¹  from the body and at home with the Lord. 5:9 So then whether we are alive ²  or away, we make it our ambition to please him. ³ 

[5:8]  ¹ tn Or “be absent.”

[5:9]  ² tn Grk “whether we are at home” [in the body]; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).

[5:9]  ³ tn Grk “to be pleasing to him.”