5. Now He who has prepared us for this same purpose is Elohim, who has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come.
6. Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Master –
7. for we walk by belief, not by sight –
8. we are of good courage, and are well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Master.
9. So we also make it our aim to be well-pleasing to Him, whether being at home, or being away from home.
10. For we all have to appear before the judgment seat of Messiah, in order for each one to receive according to what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
11. Knowing, therefore, the fear of יהוה, we persuade men, but we have been made manifest to Elohim, and I also trust in your consciences to have been manifested.