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2 Corinthians 5:9

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9–10But neither exile nor homecoming is the main thing. Cheerfully pleasing God is the main thing, and that’s what we aim to do, regardless of our conditions.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to him.

NLTNew Living Translation

So whether we are here in this body or away from this body, our goal is to please him.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Therefore indeed we have as our ambition, whether at home in the body or absent from the body, to be acceptable to him.

KJV 1900King James Version

Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.