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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God’s Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

For: the transition word used here links the following verses closely to 4:17–18. But if no new paragraph break is used here, it may be possible in some languages to leave it untranslated, as in REB and CEV. We: on the first person plural pronouns, see the comments on 4:16. If the earthly tent we live in is literally “if the house of our earthly tent.” The word if does not indicate doubt as to the reality of death, but rather the uncertainty of when this will happen. TEV makes this
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