Gospel.com Topics Feed - To Be Absent From The Body 2009-07-23T15:01:36-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/to+be+absent+from+the+body/ "To be absent from the body" in the Bible: 2 Corinthians 5:8 http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%205:8&version=31 2009-07-23T15:01:36-05:00 In this passage from 2 Corinthians, Paul says that he would rather be dead--or as he says, "to be absent from the body"--and with God.