2 Corinthians 5:7

Seven words, and they are a parenthesis. Paul drops this in the middle of a longer argument and moves on, which is worth noticing: he treats it as obvious.

The contrast is between two ways of navigating, not between faith and evidence. Sight here means what is currently visible — the present appearance of things. Paul is not recommending that his readers ignore facts. He is observing that the visible is only part of the data, and that a life organised entirely around it will be organised around a partial account.

The surrounding passage is what gives the line its weight. He has just compared the body to a tent — temporary, portable, not intended to be permanent — and described groaning in it, longing to be clothed with something more lasting. Then this. Then, two verses later, he says he makes it his aim to be well pleasing to him.

So walking by faith is not a mystical posture. In context it is the practical consequence of believing the tent is temporary: you make different decisions about a structure you know you will be leaving.

And walk is the ordinary word for daily conduct, used throughout the New Testament for how a person lives. Not soar, not leap. Walk — the slow, repetitive, unspectacular verb.