Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

because some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is weak and his speech is of no account.”

And I know that this man (whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows)

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil.

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.