2 Korintus 5:6

5:6 Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth ¹  we are absent from the Lord –

2 Korintus 5:8

5:8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away ²  from the body and at home with the Lord.

2 Korintus 5:10

5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, ³  so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil. ⁴ 

¹ tn Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).

² tn Or “be absent.”

³ sn The judgment seat (βῆμα, bhma) was a raised platform mounted by steps and sometimes furnished with a seat, used by officials in addressing an assembly or making pronouncements, often on judicial matters. The judgment seat was a common item in Greco-Roman culture, often located in the agora, the public square or marketplace in the center of a city. Use of the term in reference to Christ’s judgment would be familiar to Paul’s 1st century readers.

⁴ tn Or “whether good or bad.”