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[Yes] we have confident and hopeful courage and are pleased rather to be away from home out of the body and be at home with the Lord.

Therefore, whether we are at home [on earth away from Him] or away from home [and with Him], we are constantly ambitious and strive earnestly to be pleasing to Him.

10 For we must all appear and be revealed as we are before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive [his pay] according to what he has done in the body, whether good or evil [considering [a]what his purpose and motive have been, and what he has [b]achieved, been busy with, and given himself and his attention to accomplishing].

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:10 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon of the Greek New Testament.
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:10 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.(A) So we make it our goal to please him,(B) whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us(C) for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

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