2 Korintus 5:4

5:4 For we groan while we are in this tent, ¹  since we are weighed down, ²  because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

2 Korintus 5:6-7

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.

[5:4]  ¹ sn See the note in 5:1 on the phrase the tent we live in.

[5:4]  ² tn Or “we are burdened.”

[5:6]  ³ tn Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).

[5:7]  ⁴ tn Grk “we walk.”