2 Corinthians 5:8 NIV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:8

We are confident - 2 Corinthians 5:6. We are cheerful, and courageous, and ready to bear our trial. Tyndale renders it: “we are of good comfort.”And willing rather to be absent from the body - We would prefer to die. The same idea occurs in Philippians 1:23. “Having a desire to depart and to be with Christ; which is far better.” The sense is, that Paul would have preferred to die, and to go to heaven; rather than to remain in a world of sin and trial.To be present with the Lord - The Lord... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Corinthians 5:5-8

2 Corinthians 5:5-8. Now he that hath wrought us for Or to, this longing for immortality; is God For none but God, none less than the Almighty, could have wrought this in us; who also hath given us his Spirit In its various gifts and graces; as an earnest Of our obtaining the heavenly habitation. We are confident, therefore Or courageous in all dangers and sufferings, and dare venture even upon death itself; knowing that while we are at home Or rather sojourn (as ενδημουντες... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Confidence and courage (5:1-10)Christians receive further encouragement amid daily trials through the knowledge that the present body is only temporary. It is like a tent in which a person lives for a short time, whereas what God has prepared for the future life is a permanent home (5:1). Another illustration likens the present body to clothes that cover a person. Again this is only temporary. One day all that is earthly and temporary will be replaced by that which is spiritual and eternal... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Corinthians 5:8

willing = well pleased. See 1 Corinthians 1:21 , present. As "at home", 2 Corinthians 5:6 . with . App-104 . feast = Psalms 89:15 read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:8

We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.Wesley made this verse the basis of declaring that "The happiness of saints (upon their death) is not deferred until the resurrection";[11] because, as he said, "Paul evidently thinks of no alternative except to be either at home in the body or at home in the Lord."[12] Much as people desire to know about that interval between death and the resurrection, very little may be... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:8

2 Corinthians 5:8. And willing rather to be absent, &c.— This may be understood as spoken with respect to death; and then it will imply, that a Christian, as soon as he dies, is present with Christ: or it may mean, that he wished for Christ's coming, that his whole man might be translated from this state of absence. Some have argued from this text, not only against the sleep of the soul during the intermediate state; but that pious souls, when departed from our world, go into the higher... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:8

8. willing—literally, "well content." Translate also, "To go (literally, migrate) from our home in the body, and to come to our home with the Lord." We should prefer to be found alive at the Lord's coming, and to be clothed upon with our heavenly body ( :-). But feeling, as we do, the sojourn in the body to be a separation from our true home "with the Lord," we prefer even dissolution by death, so that in the intermediate disembodied state we may go to be "with the Lord" ( :-). "To be with... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

The contrast between our present and our future dwellings 5:1-10Paul continued to give reasons why we need not lose heart. The themes of life in the midst of death and glory following as a result of present suffering also continue."Few chapter divisions are more unfortunate than this one since what follows (2 Corinthians 5:1-10) details the thought expressed in 2 Corinthians 4:16-18. Failure to appreciate this fact unduly complicates these already difficult verses by removing their contextual... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 5:6-8

2 Corinthians 5:6-8 bear the same relation to each other as do 2 Corinthians 5:2-4. 2 Corinthians 5:2 and 2 Corinthians 5:6 make a statement. 2 Corinthians 5:3 and 2 Corinthians 5:7 are parenthetical, and 2 Corinthians 5:4; 2 Corinthians 5 :2 Corinthians 5:8 expand 2 Corinthians 5:2 and 2 Corinthians 5:6 respectively.Statement2 Corinthians 5:22 Corinthians 5:6Parenthesis2 Corinthians 5:32 Corinthians 5:7Explanation2 Corinthians 5:42 Corinthians 5:8Since we have the promise that we will obtain a... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 5:7-10

3. The sufferings and supports of a minister of the gospel 4:7-5:10Paul proceeded to explain further the nature of ministry under the New Covenant so his readers would understand his ministry and theirs better. The nature of Christianity is paradoxical. Second Corinthians explains more of these paradoxes than any other New Testament book.In writing this epistle Paul wanted his readers to realize that his ministry was not faulty, as his critics charged, but that it was solidly within the will of... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Corinthians 5:5-8

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Corinthians 5:8

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:8

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:8

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:8

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 5:6-8

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 5:7-10

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