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yet we are confident[a] and prefer rather to get-away-from-home, out of the body, and to get-at-home with the Lord.

Therefore We Are Ambitious To Please Him By Persuading People

Therefore[b] we indeed are ambitious[c] to be pleasing to Him— whether being at-home or being away-from-home. 10 For we all must appear[d] before the judgment-seat of Christ in order that each one might receive-back[e] the things done in[f] the body, in-accordance-with the things which he practiced, whether good or bad.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:8 That is, in the future life that awaits us when we die.
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:9 We do not lose heart, looking to the next life, 4:16-5:8. Now positively, we are ambitious, looking to what remains of earthly life.
  3. 2 Corinthians 5:9 Or, make it our aim.
  4. 2 Corinthians 5:10 Or be made-known (as in v 11).
  5. 2 Corinthians 5:10 Or, get, obtain, receive-in-full.
  6. 2 Corinthians 5:10 Or, during-the-time-of, by-means-of.

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