we are always.

2 Corinthians 5:8
We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

Psalm 27:3, 4
Though an army encamps around me, my heart will not fear; though a war breaks out against me, I will keep my trust. . . .

Proverbs 14:26
He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.

Isaiah 30:15
For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: "By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence--but you were not willing."

Isaiah 36:4
The Rab-shakeh said to them, "Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: 'What is the basis of this confidence of yours?

Hebrews 10:35
So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.

1 Peter 5:1
As a fellow elder, a witness of Christ's sufferings, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed, I appeal to the elders among you:

Revelation 1:9
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance that are in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and my testimony about Jesus.

whilst.

2 Corinthians 5:1
Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are foreigners and sojourners in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a sojourner like all my fathers.

Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.

Philippians 3:20, 21
But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, . . .

Hebrews 11:13
All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Hebrews 13:14
For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.