What does 2 Corinthians 5:7 mean?
Paul wrote this short verse, set in brackets in the King James Version, while explaining why Christians can face suffering and even death with courage. He has been describing our earthly body as a tent that will one day be replaced by an eternal home from God. For now, we are "absent from the Lord," not yet seeing him face to face. So we "walk by faith, not by sight." To walk means to live day by day. Believers guide their lives by trusting what God has promised, not only by what they can see or feel. It is a verse for anyone facing an unknown future.
2 Corinthians 5:7 in the World English Bible
for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Context
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
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What does 2 Corinthians 5:7 mean?
Paul wrote this short verse, set in brackets in the King James Version, while explaining why Christians can face suffering and even death with courage. He has been describing our earthly body as a tent that will one day be replaced by an eternal home from God. For now, we are "absent from the Lord," not yet seeing him face to face. So we "walk by faith, not by sight." To walk means to live day by day. Believers guide their lives by trusting what God has promised, not only by what they can see or feel. It is a verse for anyone facing an unknown future.
What does 2 Corinthians 5:7 say in the KJV?
2 Corinthians 5:7 (KJV) reads: “(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)”