2 Corinthians 5:6

“Therefore we are always confident, etc..] Because God has formed us for immortality and glory, and given us his Spirit as the earnest of it, we take heart, are of good courage, do not sink under our burdens, or despair of happiness, but are fully assured of enjoying what we are desirous of: knowing that whilst we are at home in the body; or whilst we are inmates or sojourners in the body; for the body is not properly the saints' home; whilst they are in it, they are but pilgrims and strangers; the time of their abode in it is the time of their sojourning: during which time they are absent from the Lord; not with respect to his general presence, which is everywhere, and attends all creatures,…”

“Translate as Greek, "Being therefore always confident and knowing," &c. He had intended to have made the verb to this nominative, "we are willing" (rather, "well content"), but digressing on the word "confident" (Co2 5:6-7), he resumes the word in a different form, namely, as an assertion: "We are confident and well content." "Being confident . . . we are confident" may be the Hebraic idiom of emphasis; as Act 7:34, Greek, "Having seen, I have seen," that is, I have surely seen. always--under all trials. BENGEL makes the contrast between "always confident" and "confident" especially at the prospect of being "absent from the body." We are confident as well at all times, as also most of all in…”

“Therefore we are always confident - The word used here (θαῤῥοῦντες tharrountes) means to be of good cheer. To have good courage, to be full of hope. The idea is, that Paul was not dejected, cast down, disheartened, discouraged. He was cheerful and happy. He was patient in his trials, and diligent in his calling. He was full of hope, and of the confident expectation of heaven; and this filled him with cheerfulness and with joy. Tyndale renders it: “we are always of goud cheere.” And this was not occasional and transitory, it was constant, it was uniform, it always (πάντοτε pantote) existed. This is an instance of the uniform cheerfulness which will be produced by the assured prospect of…”

“Therefore we behave undauntedly - But most of all when we have death in view; knowing that our greatest happiness lies beyond the grave. 2 Corinthians 5:7”

“we are always: Co2 5:8; Psa 27:3, Psa 27:4; Pro 14:26; Isa 30:15, Isa 36:4; Heb 10:35; Pe1 5:1; Rev 1:9 whilst: Co2 5:1; Ch1 29:15; Psa 39:12, Psa 119:19; Phi 3:20, Phi 3:21; Heb 11:13, Heb 13:14 2 Corinthians 5:7”