Discovery Box2 Corinthians 5:4-8 
Context5:4 For we groan while we are in this tent, 1 since we are weighed down, 2 because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5:5 Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose 3 is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment. 4 5:6 Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth 5 we are absent from the Lord – 5:7 for we live 6 by faith, not by sight. 5:8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away 7 from the body and at home with the Lord.
1 sn See the note in 5:1 on the phrase the tent we live in.
2 tn Or “we are burdened.”
3 tn Grk “for this very thing.”
4 tn Or “first installment,” “pledge,” “deposit” (see the note on the phrase “down payment” in 1:22).
5 tn Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).
6 tn Grk “we walk.”
7 tn Or “be absent.”
