2 Corinthians 5:9 KJV — MannaFest

2 Corinthians 5:9

Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

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ASV

Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.

WEB

So we aspire to please Him, whether we are here in this body or away from it.

YLT

Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

DBT

Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him.

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2 Corinthians — Paul's most personal letter. A defense of gospel ministry under pressure — comfort and conflict, giving and glory, weakness and power — with the tone shifting markedly at chapter 10.

Author: Paul, with Timothy (1:1)
Date: c. AD 55–56, from Macedonia

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30 verses on the floor

2 Timothy 2:15
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Galatians 1:10
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
2 Timothy 2:4
No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Colossians 1:10
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
1 Thessalonians 4:11
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

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Philotimoumetha -- We are ambitious, and labour as industriously as the most ambitious men do to obtain what they aim at. What it was that the apostle was thus ambitious of-- acceptance with God.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

So it is that well-grounded hopes of heaven will be far from giving the least encouragement to sloth and sinful security; on the contrary, they should stir us up to use the greatest care and diligence in religion: Wherefore, or because we hope to be present with the Lord, we labour and take pains,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), that we may please him who hath chosen us, that our great Lord may say to us, Well done. This they coveted as the greatest favour and the highest honour: it was the summit of their ambition. What further quickening motives they had to excite their diligence, from the consideration of the judgment to come,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Wherefore--with such a sure "confidence" of being blessed, whether we die before, or be found alive at Christ's coming. we labour--literally, "make it our ambition"; the only lawful ambition. whether present or absent--whether we be found at His coming present in the body, or absent from it. accepted--Greek, "well-pleasing."

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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