Therefore, although we are[a] always confident and know that while we[b] are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— for we live by faith, not by sight— so we are confident and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:6 Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“confident”) which is understood as concessive
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:6 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are at home”) which is understood as temporal