The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Corinthians 04
1 Therefore, seeing we have this ministry,
even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
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 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is
veiled in those who are dying,
4 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.
5 For we don’t preach ourselves, but
Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your
servants for Jesus’ sake,
6 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.
7 But we have this treasure in clay 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
crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
9 pursued, yet not forsaken; struck
down, yet not destroyed;
10 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.
11 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.
12 So then death works in us, but
life in you.
13 But 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,
14 knowing that he who raised the Lord
Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will
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 to the glory of God.
16 Therefore we don’t faint, but though
our outward person is decaying, yet our
inward person is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is for
the moment, works for us more and more
exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
18 while wedon’tlook atthe 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.