2 Corinthians 4
1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint
not:
2 but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness,
nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth
commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish:
4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that
the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should
not dawn [upon them] .
5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your
servants for Jesus' sake.
6 Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in
our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of
the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;
8 [ we are] pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto
despair;
9 pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;
10 always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of
Jesus may be manifested in our body.
11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the
life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13 But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I
believed, and therefore did I speak; we also believe, and therefore also we
speak;
14 knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with
Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15 For all things [are] for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through
the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God.
16 Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our
inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and
more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
18 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.