2 Corinthians 5:8 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

English ASV

we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

English Amplified

[Yes] we have confident and hopeful courage and are pleased rather to be away from home out of the body and be at home with the Lord.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

[Yes] we have confident and hopeful courage and are pleased rather to be away from home out of the body and be at home with the Lord.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

In fact, we are confident, and we would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.

English EASY 2024

We are brave because we trust God. We would like to go away from our body here on earth. Then we would go to be at home with the Lord. And that would be better!

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

So I say that we have confidence. And we really want to be away from this body and be at home with the Lord.

Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

We are full of courage and would much prefer to leave our home in the body and be at home with the Lord.

English God's Word - GW 1995

We are confident and prefer to live away from this body and to live with the Lord.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

yet we are confident and satisfied to be out of the body and at home with the Lord.

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

we are of good courage and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Instead, I say that we are confident and willing to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Yet we are courageous, and we would rather leave the body and go home to the Lord.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

We are certain about that. We would rather be away from our bodies and at home with the Lord.

English NIV

We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

English NKJ 1982

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

English NLT

Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Yes, we do have confidence, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

We live with a joyful confidence, yet at the same time we take delight in the thought of leaving our bodies behind to be at home with the Lord.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

We are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

And we are not afraid but are quite content to die, for then we will be at home with the Lord.

English Tyndale 1537

Nevertheless we are of good comfort, and had lever to be absent from the body and to be present(at home) with God.(the Lord.)

2 Corinthians 5:8 — Compare Translations