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2 Corinthians 5:8
The 2026 edition cites 2 passages containing 2 Corinthians 5:8, each printed here in the KJV with every place in the Constitution that cites it.
2 Corinthians 5:1-9
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.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
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.
5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
Cited by 1 place in the Constitution
Testimony of the RPCNA 1
- T 32.2
We reject the idea of inactivity of the soul between death and resurrection called “soul sleep.”
2 Corinthians 5:8
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Cited by 4 places in the Constitution
Westminster Confession of Faith 1
- CF 32.1
The bodies of men, after death, return to dust and see corruption; but their souls (which neither die nor sleep) having an immortal subsistence, immediately…
Testimony of the RPCNA 1
- T 32.4
We reject the teaching that there is a purgatory, where souls must be purified before entering heaven.
Larger Catechism 1
- LC 86
The communion in glory with Christ, which the members of the invisible Church enjoy immediately after death, is, in that their souls are then made perfect in…
Shorter Catechism 1
- SC 37
The souls of believers are, at their death, made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do…