Daily Verse Daily Verse from Faithlife | 2 Corinthians 5:8
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5:8 absent from the body Likely alludes to an intermediate period between a believer’s death and the final resurrection of all people (compare Rev 20:11–15). When believers die, they leave the physical body and enter the presence of Christ (compare Phil 1:23; 1 Thess 4:13–18).
Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., … Bomar, D. (2012, 2016). Faithlife Study Bible (2 Co 5:8). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
5:6–8 Paul drew three contrasts between this life and the intermediate state: at home in the body/out of the body; by faith/by sight; and away from the Lord/at home with the Lord. As long as the saints still live in the body, they perceive Christ only by faith. Paul’s pattern is to refer to living believers as “in” Christ or the Lord but to dead believers as “with” Christ or the Lord, when faith becomes sight in conscious fellowship with the Lord.
Easley, K. H. (2017). 2 Corinthians. In E. A. Blum & T. Wax (Eds.), CSB Study Bible: Notes (p. 1844). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., … Bomar, D. (2012, 2016). Faithlife Study Bible (2 Co 5:8). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
5:6–8 Paul drew three contrasts between this life and the intermediate state: at home in the body/out of the body; by faith/by sight; and away from the Lord/at home with the Lord. As long as the saints still live in the body, they perceive Christ only by faith. Paul’s pattern is to refer to living believers as “in” Christ or the Lord but to dead believers as “with” Christ or the Lord, when faith becomes sight in conscious fellowship with the Lord.
Easley, K. H. (2017). 2 Corinthians. In E. A. Blum & T. Wax (Eds.), CSB Study Bible: Notes (p. 1844). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.