2 Korintus 5:5-9
Konteks5:5 Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose 1 is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment. 2 5:6 Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth 3 we are absent from the Lord – 5:7 for we live 4 by faith, not by sight. 5:8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away 5 from the body and at home with the Lord. 5:9 So then whether we are alive 6 or away, we make it our ambition to please him. 7
[5:5] 1 tn Grk “for this very thing.”
[5:5] 2 tn Or “first installment,” “pledge,” “deposit” (see the note on the phrase “down payment” in 1:22).
[5:6] 3 tn Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).
[5:9] 6 tn Grk “whether we are at home” [in the body]; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).