2 Corinthians 5:7

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

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Word by word — the Greek

Word	Greek	Strong’s	Meaning
For	γὰρ gar	G1063	properly · conjunction
walk	περιπατοῦμεν, peripatoumen	G4043	to tread all around · verb — present active indicative, 1st person plural
by	διὰ dia	G1223	through (in very wide applications · preposition
faith	πίστεως pisteōs	G4102	persuasion · noun — genitive singular feminine
not	οὐ ou	G3756	the absolute negative (compare G3361 (μή)) adverb · particle — negative
by	διὰ dia	G1223	through (in very wide applications · preposition
sight	εἴδους, eidous	G1491	a view · noun — genitive singular neuter

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Cross-references

Hebrews 11:1-27 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the th…
Romans 8:24-25 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
1 Peter 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by th…
1 Peter 5:9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 5:1-11

The apostle in these verses pursues the argument of the former chapter, concerning the grounds of their courage and patience under afflictions. And, I. He mentions their expectation, and desire, and assurance, of eternal happiness after death, Co2 5:1-5. Observe particularly, 1. The believer's expectation of eternal happiness after death, Co2 5:1. He does not only know, or is well assured by faith of the truth and reality of the thing itself - that there is another and a happy life after this present life is ended, but he has good hope through grace of his interest in that everlasting blessedness of the unseen world: "We know that we have a building of God, we have a firm and well-grounded e…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Corinthians 5:7

we walk--in our Christian course here on earth. not by sight--Greek, "not by appearance." Our life is governed by faith in our immortal hope; not by the outward specious appearance of present things [TITTMANN, Greek Synonyms of the New Testament]. Compare "apparently," the Septuagint, "by appearance," Num 12:8. WAHL supports English Version. Co2 4:18 also confirms it (compare Rom 8:24; Co1 13:12-13). God has appointed in this life faith for our great duty, and in the next, vision for our reward [SOUTH] (Pe1 1:8).

Adam Clarke on 2 Corinthians 5:7

For we walk by faith - While we are in the present state faith supplies the place of direct vision. In the future world we shall have sight - the utmost evidence of spiritual and eternal things; as we shall be present with them, and live in them. Here we have the testimony of God, and believe in their reality, because we cannot doubt his word. And to make this more convincing he gives us the earnest of his Spirit, which is a foretaste of glory.

John Gill on 2 Corinthians 5:7

For we walk by faith, and not by sight. Faith is a grace which answers many useful purposes; it is the eye of the soul, by which it looks to Christ for righteousness, peace, pardon, life, and salvation; the hand by which it receives him, and the foot by which it goes to him, and walks in him as it has received him; which denotes not a single act of faith, but a continued course of believing; and is expressive, not of a weak, but of a strong steady faith of glory and happiness, and of interest in it: and it is opposed to "sight": by which is meant, not sensible communion, but the celestial vision: there is something of sight in faith; that is a seeing of the Son; and it is an evidence of thin…

The Church Fathers

We cannot now see what we shall be like, but we discern it by faith alone. That is why after the death of the body we want to stand in the presence of God.
— Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 314

Therefore, amid the shadows of this life in which "we are absent from the Lord" as long as "we walk by faith and not by sight," the Christian soul should consider itself desolate and should not cease from praying and from attending with the eye of faith to the word of the divine and sacred Scriptures.
— Augustine of Hippo, TO PROBA 130

By faith we hope in God, for his form is not visible to us. But we believe that we shall dwell with him and that we shall see him as far as it is possible for a human being to see him. For Moses saw him when he was still in the body, and the angels see him in the way that is possible for them.
— Severian of Gabala, PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH

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Dictionary and topics

Man — (1.) Heb. ‘Adam, used as the proper name of the first man. The name is derived from a word meaning “to be red,” and thus the first man was called Adam because he was formed from the red earth. It is…
Faith · By it saints: Walk — By it saints: Walk
Pilgrims And Strangers · As saints they: Long for their pilgrimage to end — As saints they: Long for their pilgrimage to end
Walking · .Not walking by sight, but by faith — .Not walking by sight, but by faith

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

2 Corinthians 5:7

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 5:1-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Corinthians 5:7

Adam Clarke on 2 Corinthians 5:7

John Gill on 2 Corinthians 5:7

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

2 Corinthians 5:7

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 5:1-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Corinthians 5:7

Adam Clarke on 2 Corinthians 5:7

John Gill on 2 Corinthians 5:7

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on 2 Corinthians 5:1-8

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Corinthians 5:7