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.

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 of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away 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, 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;

All these people died still believing what God had promised them. They did not receive what was promised, but they saw it all from a distance and welcomed it. They agreed that they were foreigners and nomads here on earth.

But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior.He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same power with which he will bring everything under his control.

For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down( that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.

Hear my prayer, O Lord! Listen to my cries for help! Don’t ignore my tears. For I am your guest— a traveler passing through, as my ancestors were before me.

Though a mighty army surrounds me, my heart will not be afraid. Even if I am attacked, I will remain confident.The one thing I ask of the Lord— the thing I seek most— is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord’s perfections and meditating in his Temple.

This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says:“ Only in returning to me and resting in me will you be saved. In quietness and confidence is your strength. But you would have none of it.

And now, a word to you who are elders in the churches. I, too, am an elder and a witness to the sufferings of Christ. And I, too, will share in his glory when he is revealed to the whole world. As a fellow elder, I appeal to you:

Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord.

I, John, am your brother and your partner in suffering and in God’s Kingdom and in the patient endurance to which Jesus calls us. I was exiled to the island of Patmos for preaching the word of God and for my testimony about Jesus.

Those who fear the Lord are secure; he will be a refuge for their children.

So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you!

I am only a foreigner in the land. Don’t hide your commands from me!

We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land as our ancestors were before us. Our days on earth are like a passing shadow, gone so soon without a trace.

For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come.

Then the Assyrian king’s chief of staff told them to give this message to Hezekiah:“ This is what the great king of Assyria says: What are you trusting in that makes you so confident?