2 Corinthians 5:7 (WEB)
for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Catechism · 1
“Now, however, "we walk by faith, not by sight";” — Catechism footnote: 2 Cor 5:7.
Fathers and councils · 21
Augustine of Hippo
“But as yet “by faith, not by sight,” for “we are saved by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 7.
Read the whole comment“…clear therein; because we submit our understanding unto it, and esteem as certain that even that which is shut up from our sight is rightly and truly spoken.” — editor's note: In his De Civ. Dei, xi. 3, he defines very distinctly (as he does in other of his writings) the knowledge received “by sight”—that is, by experience, as…
Read the whole comment“In this darkness too, wherein “we yet walk by faith, and not by sight,” as long as “we hope for what we see not, and with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 7.
Read the whole comment“Let such an individual rather accept the authority, at once lofty and free from all deceitfulness, which tells us that, as long as we are in the body, we are absent from the Lord, and that we walk by faith and not by sight.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“At present, while we are on pilgrimage, “we walk by faith, not by sight,” or, actually beholding.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 7.
Read the whole comment“For as we hope and look for what has been promised by Him, we shall be made equal to the angels of God, and together with them we shall enjoy that Trinity now by sight, wherein at present we walk by faith.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 7
Read the whole comment“For “while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: for we walk by faith, not by sight.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7
Read the whole comment“But whilst we are absent from the Lord, and walk by faith, not by sight, we ought to see the “back parts” of Christ, that is His flesh, by that very faith, that is, standing on the solid foundation of faith, which the rock…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7
Read the whole comment“For as “we walk as yet by faith, and not by sight,” we certainly do not yet see God, as the same [apostle] saith, “face to face:” whom however we shall never see, unless now already we love.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 7
Read the whole comment“Wherefore since, as it is written, “While we are in the body, we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight;” undoubtedly, so long as the just man lives by faith, howsoever he lives according to the inner man, although he aims at truth and reaches on to things eternal…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7
Read the whole comment““For as long as we are in the body we are absent from the Lord; For we walk by faith, not by sight.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“Seeing then that it is a hard matter for us to comprehend this, but no hard matter to believe it; for Isaiah says, “Unless ye believe ye shall not understand;” let us “walk by faith as long as we are in pilgrimage from the Lord, till we come to sight where we shall see face to face.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“For we walk by faith, not by sight.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“For, “whilst we are in the body,” saith the apostle, “we are absent from the Lord: for we walk by faith, not by sight.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“For he who is sojourning at a distance from the Lord has need to be living by faith, because by this we are prepared for beholding His countenance.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6–8.
Read the whole comment“For as long as we are in the body, as it now is, to wit, corruptible, and encumbering to the soul, we live at a distance from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 7.
Read the whole comment“For if, so long as we are in this corruptible body that burdens the soul, and are walking by faith, not by sight, He forsaketh not those who are sojourning at a distance from Himself; how much more, when we have attained to that sight, shall He fill us with Himself?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7.
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Tertullian
“In the same way, when he says, “Therefore we are always confident, and fully aware, that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not be sight,” it is manifest that in this statement there is no design of disparaging the flesh, as if it separated us from the Lord.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7.
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Clement of Alexandria
““For we walk by faith, not by sight.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 7.
Read the whole comment“For we walk by faith, not by sight,” as the apostle says; “and we are willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with God.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 1, 2, 3, 7.
Read the whole comment““For we walk by faith, not by sight,” the noble apostle says.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 7.
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Cross-references · 27
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.6.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in The Instructor III.2.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity VIII.4.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 75 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.6.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.6.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.6.
Cited together in The Instructor III.2.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 75.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in The Instructor III.2.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.6.
Cited together in The Instructor III.2.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 75.
Cited together in The Instructor III.2.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 77.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 25.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Catechism §164 and 2 other places.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity VIII.4.