2 Corinthians 7:16

7:16 I rejoice because in everything I am fully confident in you.

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.

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

[5:8]  ¹ tn Or “be absent.”