2 Corinthians 5:9

2 Corinthians 5:9

7 For ^awe walk by faith, not by sight.

8 We are confident, yes, ^awell pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

The Judgment Seat of Christ

9 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.

10 ^aFor we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, ^bthat each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

11 Knowing, therefore, ^athe terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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We make it our aim (filotimoumeqa). Old and common verb, present middle, from filotimov (filos, timh, fond of honour), to act from love of honour, to be ambitious in the good sense (I Thessalonians 4:11; II Corinthians 5:9; Romans 15:20). The Latin ambitio has a bad sense from ambire, to go both ways to gain one's point.

To be well-pleasing to him (euarestoi autw einai). Late adjective that shows Paul's loyalty to Christ, his Captain. Found in several inscriptions in the Koin‚ period (Deissmann, Bible Studies, p. 214; Moulton and Milligan's Vocabulary).

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