"(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)" — 2 Corinthians 5:7

2 Corinthians 5:7 · KJV

“(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)”

— 2 Corinthians 5:7

Verse 6

Therefore {we are} always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

Verse 8

We are confident, {I say}, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5 — Context

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.

Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. {labour: or, endeavour}

Cross References

Hebrews 11:1-27

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. {substance: or, ground, or, confidence}

2 Corinthians 4:18

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen {are} temporal; but the things which are not seen {are} eternal.

Romans 8:24-25

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

1 Peter 1:8

Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see {him} not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

Hebrews 10:38

Now the just shall live by faith: but if {any man} draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

Galatians 2:20

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

1 Peter 5:9

Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. {darkly: Gr. in a riddle}