2 Corinthians 5:6-8 ▼

6 So then, being always filled with good courage and confident hope, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—

7 for we walk by faith, not by sight [living our lives in a manner consistent with our confident belief in God’s promises]—

8 we are [as I was saying] of good courage and confident hope, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.