Now the one who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the down payment, the Spirit.

Therefore, although we are[a] always confident and know that while we[b] are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— for we live by faith, not by sight—

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:6 Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“confident”) which is understood as concessive
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:6 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are at home”) which is understood as temporal