2 Corinthians 4:7-5:10

2 Corinthians 4

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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

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We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

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Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

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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.

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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.

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So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

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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;

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Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

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For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

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For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

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For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

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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.

2 Corinthians 5

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For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

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For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

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If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

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For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

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Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

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Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

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(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

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We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

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Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.