2 Corinthians 4:18
Good News Translation
For we fix our attention, not on things that are seen, but on things that are unseen. What can be seen lasts only for a time, but what cannot be seen lasts forever.

New Revised Standard Version
because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

Contemporary English Version
Things that are seen don't last forever, but things that are not seen are eternal. This is why we keep our minds on the things that cannot be seen.

New American Bible
as we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.

Douay-Rheims Bible
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal: but the things which are not seen, are eternal.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal: but the things which are not seen, are eternal.

we.

2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith and not by sight.)

Romans 8:24,25 For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what a man seeth, why doth he hope for? . . .

Hebrews 11:1,25-27 Now, faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not. . . .

Hebrews 12:2,3 Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God. . . .

for.

Matthew 25:46 And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.

Leviticus 16:25,26 And the fat that is offered for sins, he shall burn on the altar. . . .

2 Thessalonians 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope in grace,

1 John 2:16,17,25 For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the Father but is of the world. . . .

Context
Treasures in Jars of Clay
17For that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation worketh for us above measure, exceedingly an eternal weight of glory. 18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal: but the things which are not seen, are eternal.
Cross References
Romans 8:24
For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what a man seeth, why doth he hope for?

2 Corinthians 5:7
(For we walk by faith and not by sight.)

Hebrews 9:11
But Christ, being come an high Priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hand, that is, not of this creation:

Hebrews 11:1
Now, faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not.

Hebrews 11:13
All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth.

2 Corinthians 4:17
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