Discovery Box2 Corinthians 5:1 
ContextLiving by Faith, Not by Sight
5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, 1 is dismantled, 2 we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.
2 Corinthians 5:6
Context5:6 Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth 3 we are absent from the Lord –
2 Corinthians 5:8
Context5:8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away 4 from the body and at home with the Lord.
1 sn The expression the tent we live in refers to “our earthly house, our body.” Paul uses the metaphor of the physical body as a house or tent, the residence of the immaterial part of a person.
2 tn Or “destroyed.”
3 tn Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).
4 tn Or “be absent.”
