⁶ Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

¹³ These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen{TR adds "and being convinced of"} them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

²⁰ For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

²¹ who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

⁹ I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God's Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

¹ I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

¹⁴ For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

³⁵ Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

⁸ 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.

¹ For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

⁴ Rabshakeh said to them, Say you now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which you trust?

¹⁵ For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. You would not:

²⁶ In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, And he will be a refuge for his children.

¹⁹ I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.

¹² "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, A foreigner, as all my fathers were.

³ Though a host should encamp against me, My heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, Even then I will be confident.

⁴ One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, That I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, To see Yahweh's beauty, And to inquire in his temple.

¹⁵ For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.