2 Corinthians
Chapter 4
- Therefore, since we have this
ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. (1
Cor. 7:25; 2 Cor. 4:16)
- But we have renounced the hidden
things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God
deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to
every man's conscience in the sight of God. (2 Cor. 5:11)
- But even is the gospel is veiled,
it is veiled to
those who are perishing, (1 Cor. 1:18)
- whose minds the god of this age has
blinded, who do
not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ,
who
is the image of God, should shine on them. (John 12:31; John 12:40; 2 Cor. 3:8&9)
- For we do not preach ourselves, but
Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus'
sake. (1 Cor. 1:13; 1 Cor. 9:19)
- For it is the God who commanded
light to 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. (2 Pet. 1:19)
- But we have this treasure in
earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not
of us. (1 Cor. 2:5)
- We are hard pressed on every side,
yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
- persecuted, but not forsaken;
struck down, but not destroyed - - (Ps. 37:24; Heb. 13:5)
- always carrying about in the body
the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be
manifested in our body. (Phil.
3:10)
- For we who live are always
delivered to death for
Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our
mortal
flesh. (Rom. 8:36)
- So then death is working in us,
but life in you.
- But since we have the same spirit
of faith, according to what is written, "I believed and therefore I
spoke," we also believe and
therefore speak, (Ps. 73:28;
Ps. 116:10)
- knowing that He who raised up the
Lord Jesus will
also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. (Rom. 8:11)
- For all things are for your sakes,
that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to
abound to the glory of God. (Col. 1:24; 2 Cor. 1:11)
- Therefore we do not lose
heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward
man is being renewed day by day. (Is. 40:29; Is. 40:31; 2
Cor. 4:1) (PASS
ON TO A FRIEND)
- For our light affliction, which is
but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory, (Rom. 8:18)
- while we do not look at the things
which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the
things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen
are eternal. (Heb. 11:1;
Heb. 11:13)
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