2 Corinthians 5:6

5:6 Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth ¹  we are absent from the Lord –

2 Corinthians 10:11

10:11 Let such a person consider this: What we say ²  by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.

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¹ tn Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).

² tn Grk “what we are in word.”