New Revised Standard Version
So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord—

Contemporary English Version
So always be cheerful! As long as we are in these bodies, we are away from the Lord.

New American Bible
So we are always courageous, although we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore having always confidence, knowing that while we are in the body we are absent from the Lord.

Therefore having always confidence, knowing that while we are in the body we are absent from the Lord.

we are always.

2 Corinthians 5:8 But we are confident and have a good will to be absent rather from the body and to be present with the Lord.

Psalm 27:3,4 If armies in camp should stand together against me, my heart shall not fear. If a battle should rise up against me, in this will I be confident. . . .

Proverbs 14:26 In the fear of the Lord is confidence of strength, and there shall be hope for his children.

Isaiah 30:15 For thus saith the Lord God the Holy One of Israel: If you return and be quiet, you shall be saved: in silence and in hope shall your strength be. And you would not:

Isaiah 36:4 And Rabsaces said to them: Tell Ezechias: Thus saith the great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence wherein thou trustest?

Hebrews 10:35 Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward.

1 Peter 5:1 The ancients therefore that are among you, I beseech who am myself also an ancient and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as also a partaker of that glory which is to be revealed in time to come:

Revelation 1:9 I, John, your brother and your partner in tribulation and in the kingdom and patience in Christ Jesus, was in the island which is called Patmos, for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus.

whilst.

2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. I Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.

Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

Psalm 119:19 I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

Philippians 3:20,21 But our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, . . .

Hebrews 11:13 All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth.

Hebrews 13:14 For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to come.