King James Version
2 Corinthians 5:6 in the King James Version says “Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:” — study this verse from 2 Corinthians chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:”
2 Corinthians 5:6 · KJV
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
KJV Study — Public Domain
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
“knowing”
G1492used only in certain past tenses, the others being borrowed from the equivalent g3700 and g3708; properly, to see (literally or figuratively); by impl
“the body”
G4983the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively
“from”
G575"off," i.e., away (from something near), in various senses (of place, time, or relation; literal or figurative)
“the Lord”
G2962supreme in authority, i.e., (as noun) controller; by implication, master (as a respectful title)
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