...and as a confirmation, I took my Bible and sealed with my own blood that scripture, (2 Cor. v. 8,) " We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." 25th.—I left home again. I have the assurance the Lord...

...thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise. 2 Cor. 5. 6, 8, 9. Therefore we are always confident, knowing, that whilst we are at home in the body, we...confident I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour that whether present or absent, we may...

...moral sense, is to become wicked, which cannot be true of Jesus; he never was wicked. Paul says, " Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : we are confident, 1 say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour...

...were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." " Whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord." " We are confident and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord," Again he says, " 1...

...Christ is Paul's paradise. According to him, Christ is the most desirable part of celestial felicity : ' Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord ; we are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord,' 2 Cor. v. 6. 8. 'I desire...

...eternal in the heavens. Therefore, we are always confident, knowing that whilst wo are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: We are confident, I say, and willinи rather to be absent from the body, and to bo present with the Lord. Phil. i. 23. For I am...

...including all the nations of the earth. Another scripture to the same purpose is 2 Cor. v. 8, 9, 10. "We are confident I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labor that, whether presenter absent, we may...

...(or rather conversant) in the body, we are absentfrom the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight:) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present (or conversant) with the Lord. Where two things are in the first place...

...absent from his body, and subsist without it, and in a state of separation from it, 2 Cor. v. 8, 9, 10. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we...

...including all the nations of the earth. Another scripture to the same purpose is 2 Cor. v. 8, 9, 10. "We are confident I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labor that, whether present or absent, we may...