Scripture Post #330: *WALK BY FAITH*

2nd Corinthians 5:7: "(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"

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Context: This Scripture was from Apostle Paul and Timothy, unto the Church at Corinth (2nd Cor. 1:1-2).

2nd Corinthians 5:7

Easy-to-Read Version (ERV):

"We live by what we believe will happen, not by what we can see." 

I'd like to give the context, mainly because of the parentheses used in this Scripture Post. No sentence ever just begins with parentheses, unless that sentence is in relation to something mentioned before. Before verse 7, verses 1-6 were about earth-bodies and Heaven-bodies. The context for this Scripture Post is: 2nd Cor. 5:1-10. But we walk by faith and not by sight in any context. Not just the context of our earthly or Heavenly state of being. 

V. 1: "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."

V. 2: "For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:"

V. 3: "If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked."

V. 4: "For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life."

V. 5: "Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit."

V. 6: "Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:"

V. 7: "(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"

V. 8: "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."

V. 9: "Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him."

V. 10: "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad."

Originally Published: Thur. 8/8/13