2 Corinthians 4:1-9 ▼

1 Because of this, having this ministry, according as we received kindness, we do not faint,

2 but renounced for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every conscience of men, before God;

3 and if our good news is also veiled, it is veiled in those perishing,

4 in whom the god of this age blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that there does not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

5 for we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus—LORD, and [we are] ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

6 because [it is] God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who shined in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

7 And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us,

8 being in tribulation in every [way], but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;

9 persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;