2 Corinthians 4

World English Bible (WEB) • 18 verses

1Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

Related2 Thessalonians 3:13 · Galatians 6:9 · Ephesians 3:13 · Revelation 2:3 · Ephesians 3:7-8 · Philippians 4:13

2But 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.

Related2 Corinthians 2:17 · 1 Thessalonians 2:3-5 · 2 Corinthians 5:11 · 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 · 2 Corinthians 6:4-7 · 1 Corinthians 4:5

3Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

Related1 Corinthians 1:18 · 2 Corinthians 3:14 · 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 · 2 Corinthians 2:15-16 · Matthew 11:25 · 2 Corinthians 4:4

4in 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.

RelatedJohn 12:40 · 2 Corinthians 3:14 · Acts 26:18 · Isaiah 6:10 · 1 John 5:19 · 2 Corinthians 4:6

5For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

Related2 Corinthians 1:24 · 1 Corinthians 1:23 · 1 Thessalonians 2:5-6 · Galatians 5:13 · 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 · Philippians 1:15

6seeing 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.

RelatedIsaiah 60:2 · Genesis 1:3 · 1 Peter 2:9 · 2 Peter 1:19 · Ephesians 5:8 · 2 Corinthians 4:4

7But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves.

Related2 Corinthians 5:1 · 2 Corinthians 3:5-6 · Ephesians 2:8-9 · 1 Corinthians 1:28 · Colossians 2:3 · 1 Corinthians 2:3-5

8We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

RelatedJames 1:2-4 · Romans 8:35-37 · 1 Peter 4:12-14 · 2 Corinthians 12:10 · Psalms 56:2-3 · 2 Corinthians 7:5

9pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

RelatedIsaiah 43:2 · Micah 7:8 · Psalms 37:24-25 · Proverbs 24:16 · Isaiah 62:4 · Psalms 42:11

10always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

RelatedRomans 6:5 · 2 Timothy 2:11 · 1 Peter 4:13 · Romans 6:8 · Philippians 3:10-11 · 2 Corinthians 13:4

11For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

Related1 Corinthians 15:49 · 1 Corinthians 15:53-54 · Psalms 44:22 · Romans 8:36 · 1 Corinthians 15:31 · 2 Corinthians 5:4

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

Related2 Corinthians 13:9 · 1 John 3:16 · Acts 20:24 · 1 Corinthians 4:10 · Philippians 2:17 · 2 Corinthians 12:15

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

RelatedPsalms 116:10 · Hebrews 11:1-40 · 2 Corinthians 3:12 · Proverbs 21:28 · 1 Corinthians 12:9 · 2 Peter 1:1

14knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also through Jesus, and will present us with you.

RelatedRomans 8:11 · 1 Thessalonians 4:14 · 1 Corinthians 6:14 · Jude 1:24 · John 11:25-26 · Ephesians 5:27

15For 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.

RelatedRomans 8:28 · Ephesians 3:20-21 · 2 Corinthians 9:11-12 · 2 Corinthians 1:11 · Psalms 50:23 · 2 Corinthians 8:19

16Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.

RelatedIsaiah 40:31 · Colossians 3:10 · Isaiah 40:29 · Romans 12:2 · Psalms 73:26 · 2 Corinthians 4:1

17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

RelatedRomans 8:18 · 1 Peter 5:10 · Romans 5:3-5 · James 1:12 · Hebrews 12:10-11 · James 1:3-4

18while 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.

Related2 Corinthians 5:7 · Romans 8:24-25 · Hebrews 11:1 · 1 John 2:16-17 · 1 John 2:25 · Hebrews 11:13

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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.