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2 Corinthians 5:5-7
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2 Corinthians 5:5-7
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5 Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose[a] is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.[b] 6 Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth[c] we are absent from the Lord— 7 for we live[d] by faith, not by sight.
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- 2 Corinthians 5:5 tn Grk “for this very thing.”
- 2 Corinthians 5:5 tn Or “first installment,” “pledge,” “deposit” (see the note on the phrase “down payment” in 1:22).
- 2 Corinthians 5:6 tn Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).
- 2 Corinthians 5:7 tn Grk “we walk.”
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