Paul's LettersNew Testament
Chapter 4· Book VIII of 27
1Verse 1. Open verse actions.Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint. 2Verse 2. Open verse actions.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. 3Verse 3. Open verse actions.Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish; 4Verse 4. Open verse actions.in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them. 5Verse 5. Open verse actions.For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake; 6Verse 6. Open verse actions.seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7Verse 7. Open verse actions.But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves. 8Verse 8. Open verse actions.We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; 9Verse 9. Open verse actions.pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed; 10Verse 10. Open verse actions.always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11Verse 11. Open verse actions.For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh. 12Verse 12. Open verse actions.So then death works in us, but life in you. 13Verse 13. Open verse actions.But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke.” We also believe, and therefore also we speak; 14Verse 14. Open verse actions.knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you. 15Verse 15. Open verse actions.For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God. 16Verse 16. Open verse actions.Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. 17Verse 17. Open verse actions.For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; 18Verse 18. Open verse actions.while we don’t look 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.