So then whether we are alive or away, we make it our ambition to please him.

所以，无论是住在身内，离开身外，我们立了志向，要得主的喜悦。

所以，无论是住在身内或住在身外，我们都立了志向要得主的喜悦。

所以，无论是住在身内或住在身外，我们都立了志向要得主的喜悦。

因此，我们立定心志，无论是住在肉身之内还是离开肉身，都要取悦主。

因此，我们立定志向，无论住在身内或是与身体分开，都要讨主的喜悦。

所以我们立定心志，无论是住在身体里，还是离开身体，都要得主的喜悦，

所以，無論是住在身內，離開身外，我們立了志向，要得主的喜悅。

所以，無論是住在身內或住在身外，我們都立了志向要得主的喜悅。

所以，無論是住在身內或住在身外，我們都立了志向要得主的喜悅。

因此，我們立定心志，無論是住在肉身之內還是離開肉身，都要取悅主。

因此，我們立定志向，無論住在身內或是與身體分開，都要討主的喜悅。

所以無論是住在身內，或是出外離身，我們都懷着大志、要讓主喜歡。

所以我們立定心志，無論是住在身體裡，還是離開身體，都要得主的喜悅，

故或居或離、惟務為主悅納、

或存於身、或離於身、甚慕為主悅納、

因此、無論居於身、離於身、惟務得主悅納、

總之、無論離鄉或在家、吾人之惟一企圖、亦在悅樂天心而已。

So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.

So we try our best to please him. We want to please him whether we are at home in our bodies or away from them.

So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.

So whether we are here in this body or away from this body, our goal is to please him.

Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to him.

Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.

Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.

Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well- pleasing unto him.

Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to Him.

Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

For the one who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.

so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,

Therefore, dear friends, since you are waiting for these things, strive to be found at peace, without spot or blemish, when you come into his presence.

In fact this is why we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God( as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more.

Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it.”

And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person’s foundation,

So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air.Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.

So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.

I will bring them to my holy mountain; I will make them happy in the temple where people pray to me. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my temple will be known as a temple where all nations may pray.”

Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with 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, brothers and sisters, make every effort to be sure of your calling and election. For by doing this you will never stumble into sin.For thus an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, will be richly provided for you.

to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you.

So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is welcomed before him.

Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life– the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”

to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.