2 Corinthians 5:8

5:8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away ¹  from the body and at home with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 12:3

12:3 And I know that this man (whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows)

[5:8]  ¹ tn Or “be absent.”