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2 Corinthians 5
2 Corinthians 5:8
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2 Corinthians 5:8
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We are without fear, desiring to be free from the body, and to be with the Lord.
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So, then, we are ever without fear, and though conscious that while we are in the body we are away from the Lord,
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(For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)
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We are without fear, desiring to be free from the body, and to be with the Lord.
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For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him.
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For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.
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