2 Corinthians 5:9

So then whether we are alive ¹  or away, we make it our ambition to please him. ² 

biblegateway 2Co 5:9

So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.

biblegateway 2Co 5:9

Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.

biblegateway 2Co 5:9

So our aim is to please him always, whether we are here in this body or away from this body.

biblegateway 2Co 5:9

But neither exile nor homecoming is the main thing. Cheerfully pleasing God is the main thing, and that's what we aim to do, regardless of our conditions.

SABDAweb 2Co 5:9

For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him.

bibleoremus 2Co 5:9

So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.

biblegateway 2Co 5:9

Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.

biblegateway 2Co 5:9

So then whether we are alive ¹  or away, we make it our ambition to please him. ² 

¹ tn Grk “whether we are at home” [in the body]; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).

² tn Grk “to be pleasing to him.”