OET interlinear 2COR 5:8

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases

δὲ

and

Here, the word Now introduces again what Paul started speaking about in 5:16. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a word or phrase that resumes an earlier idea or thought. Alternate translation: “Again,”

Note 2 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases

καὶ

and

Here, the word and could introduce: (1) additional information. Alternate translation: “and also” (2) a contrast with how they are confident. Alternate translation: “but” (3) what it is that they are confident about. Alternate translation: “enough that we”

εὐδοκοῦμεν, μᾶλλον

˱we˲_/are/_taking_pleasure rather

Alternate translation: “would prefer”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / exmetaphor

ἐκδημῆσαι ἐκ τοῦ σώματος καὶ ἐνδημῆσαι πρὸς τὸν Κύριον

/to/_be_absent out_of the body and /to/_be_at_home with the Lord

Here Paul continues to refer to the body as if it were a building in which a person could be at home. Express the idea as you did in 5:6. Alternate translation: “not to live in the body as if it were a home but to be present with the Lord”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

ἐκδημῆσαι ἐκ τοῦ σώματος

/to/_be_absent out_of the body

Here, the word body refers to the body that people have before they die. The phrase be away from the body could refer to: (1) a temporary situation between when a believer dies and when Jesus comes back in which the believer does not have a body but is still with the Lord. Alternate translation: “to be without a body for now” (2) the eternal situation of believers, in which they either have no bodies or have new bodies. Alternate translation: “to be away from this body forever”