6 So weare always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For Rom. 8:24; Heb. 11:1we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, Phil. 1:23well 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 Matt. 16:27; Acts 10:42; Rom. 2:16; 14:10, 12For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, Gal. 6:7; Eph. 6:8that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.