Having such a hope, yea, not such a hope only, but such an assurance and confidence, we labour, both actively, doing the will of God, and passively, submitting to the will of God in all afflictive providences; that while we are in the body, and absent from the Lord, we may be accepted of him; as we know we shall be, when we shall be present with him, in another sense than we now are.
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2 Corinthians 5:9
9 Wherefore we labour,a that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.