So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,

所以，我们时常坦然无惧，并且晓得我们住在身内，便与主相离。

所以，我们总是勇敢的，并且知道，只要我们住在这身体内就是离开了主。

所以，我们总是勇敢的，并且知道，只要我们住在这身体内就是离开了主。

所以，我们总是坦然无惧，尽管知道住在肉身之内便无法与主在一起。

我们既然一向都是坦然无惧的，又知道住在身内就是与主分开（

因此我们总是满怀勇气，尽管知道我们还住在这身体里的时候，是与主相离的；

所以，我們時常坦然無懼，並且曉得我們住在身內，便與主相離。

所以，我們總是勇敢的，並且知道，只要我們住在這身體內就是離開了主。

所以，我們總是勇敢的，並且知道，只要我們住在這身體內就是離開了主。

所以，我們總是坦然無懼，儘管知道住在肉身之內便無法與主在一起。

我們既然一向都是坦然無懼的，又知道住在身內就是與主分開（

所以我們時常放膽無懼，曉得住在身內、便是出外離開了主；（

因此我們總是滿懷勇氣，儘管知道我們還住在這身體裡的時候，是與主相離的；

故我常坦然、知居於身、則離乎主、

故心恆安、知存於身、則離於主、

故我心毅然、且知己居於身、則離於主、

因是吾人常具大無畏精神；且深知吾人之寄於軀壳中、猶如暫別主之庭闈、而作客他鄉者也。

Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.

So here is what we can always be certain about. As long as we are at home in our bodies, we are away from the Lord.

So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord.

So we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.

Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—

So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.

Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord

So, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.

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

Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord–

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

“ Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.

Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.

For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel,“ In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” But you were unwilling,

So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:

Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.

Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me!

For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

And the Rabshakeh said to them,“ Say to Hezekiah,‘ Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours?