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NASB | 2 Corinthians 5:8 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 5:8 we are [as I was saying] of good courage and confident hope, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. |
Bible Question: what does it mean when the bible says to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Then it say when Jesus come the died in christ will rise first. If we are present with the Lord then why would we be the first to rise. |
Bible Answer: Greetings, Towanda! Good question! Here's an excerpt from the Jamieson, Brown, and Fausset Commentary concerning 2 Cor. 5:8. "2Co 5:8 - willing--literally, "well content." Translate also, "To go (literally, migrate) from our home in the body, and to come to our home with the Lord." We should prefer to be found alive at the Lord's coming, and to be clothed upon with our heavenly body (2Co_5:2-4). But feeling, as we do, the sojourn in the body to be a separation from our true home "with the Lord," we prefer even dissolution by death, so that in the intermediate disembodied state we may go to be "with the Lord" (Phi_1:23). "To be with Christ" (the disembodied state) is distinguished from Christ's coming to take us to be with Him in soul and body (1Th_4:14-17, "with the Lord"). Perhaps the disembodied spirits of believers have fulness of communion with Christ unseen; but not the mutual recognition of one another, until clothed with their visible bodies at the resurrection (compare 1Th_4:13-17), when they shall with joy recognize Christ's image in each other perfect." This passage is pretty close to v. 6 also. I pray that this helps! - Nolan |
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