| 1 | Therefore seeing we have this ministry , as we have received mercy , we faint not ; |
| 2 | But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty , 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 . |
| 3 | But if our gospel be hid , it is hid to them that are lost : |
| 4 | In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not , lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ , who is the image of God , should shine unto them . |
| 5 | For we preach not ourselves , but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and ourselves your servants for Jesus ' sake . |
| 6 | For God , who commanded the light to shine out of darkness , hath 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 excellency of the power may be of God , and not of us . |
| 8 | [We are] troubled on every side , yet not distressed ; [we are] perplexed , but not in despair ; |
| 9 | Persecuted , but not forsaken ; cast down , but not destroyed ; |
| 10 | Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus , that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body . |
| 11 | For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus ' sake , that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh . |
| 12 | So then death worketh in us , but life in you . |
| 13 | We having the same spirit of faith , according as it is written , I believed , and therefore have I spoken ; we also believe , and therefore speak ; |
| 14 | Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus , and shall present [us] with you . |
| 15 | For all things [are] for your sakes , that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God . |
| 16 | For which cause we faint not ; but though our outward man perish , yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day . |
| 17 | For our light affliction , which is but for a moment , worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] 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 . |
