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2 Corinthians 5:4-6
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4 For we groan while we are in this tent,[a] since we are weighed down,[b] because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose[c] is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.[d] 6 Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth[e] we are absent from the Lord—

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  1. 2 Corinthians 5:4 sn See the note in 5:1 on the phrase the tent we live in.
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:4 tn Or “we are burdened.”
  3. 2 Corinthians 5:5 tn Grk “for this very thing.”
  4. 2 Corinthians 5:5 tn Or “first installment,” “pledge,” “deposit” (see the note on the phrase “down payment” in 1:22).
  5. 2 Corinthians 5:6 tn Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).
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