2 Corinthians 4:7-18 ▼

7 Now we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the supereminence of the power may be from God and not from us,

8 being pressed in every way but not being crushed, being perplexed but not despairing,

9 being persecuted but not being forsaken, being struck down but not being destroyed,

10 always carrying around the death of Jesus in the body, so that the life of Jesus also may be revealed in our body.

11 For we the living are always being delivered to death on account of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.

12 So then, death works in us, but life in you?.

13 But having the same spirit of faith according to that having been written: “I believed, therefore I spoke,” we also believe, and therefore we speak,

14 knowing that the One having raised the Lord Jesus also will raise us with Jesus and will present us with you?.

15 For all things are on account of you?, so that the grace having increased on account of more people may make abundant the thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

16 Therefore we do not grow fainthearted; but if also our outer man decays, yet our inner one is renewed day and day.

17 For the momentary lightness of our affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory, from supereminence to supereminence,

18 in our not looking at the things being seen, but the things not being seen. For the things being seen are temporary, but the things not being seen are eternal.