2 Corinthians 4

1Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.Cross-references: Isa 40:30 · 1Cor 7:25 · 2Cor 3:6 · 2Cor 3:12 · 2Cor 4:16 · 2Cor 5:18 · +9 more

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.Cross-references: Rom 1:16 · Rom 6:21 · 1Cor 4:5 · 2Cor 1:12 · 2Cor 2:17 · 2Cor 5:11 · +8 more

3Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,Cross-references: Matt 11:25 · Rom 2:16 · 1Cor 1:18 · 2Cor 2:12 · 2Cor 2:15 · 2Cor 3:14 · +4 more

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.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:22 · Ps 50:2 · Isa 6:10 · Isa 60:1 · Matt 4:8 · John 1:14 · +29 more

5For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,Cross-references: Matt 3:11 · Matt 20:25 · Matt 23:8 · Luke 22:25 · John 1:21 · John 3:27 · +32 more

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.Cross-references: Gen 1:3 · Gen 1:14 · Ex 33:18 · Ex 34:5 · Ps 63:2 · Ps 74:16 · +23 more

7But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves.Cross-references: Judg 7:2 · Judg 7:13 · Judg 7:16 · Job 4:19 · Job 10:9 · Lam 4:2 · +22 more

8We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;Cross-references: 1Sam 28:15 · 1Sam 30:6 · 1Sam 31:4 · Job 2:9 · Ps 37:33 · Ps 56:2 · +15 more

9pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;Cross-references: Job 5:17 · Job 22:29 · Ps 9:10 · Ps 22:1 · Ps 37:24 · Ps 37:28 · +9 more

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.Cross-references: John 14:19 · Acts 18:9 · Rom 6:5 · Rom 6:8 · Rom 8:17 · Rom 8:36 · +9 more

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.Cross-references: Ps 44:22 · Ps 141:7 · Rom 8:11 · Rom 8:36 · 1Cor 15:31 · 1Cor 15:49 · +2 more

12So then death works in us, but life in you.Cross-references: Acts 20:24 · 1Cor 4:10 · 2Cor 12:15 · 2Cor 13:9 · Phil 2:17 · Phil 2:30 · +1 more

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,Cross-references: Ps 116:10 · Prov 21:28 · Acts 15:11 · Rom 1:12 · 1Cor 12:9 · 2Cor 3:12 · +2 more

14knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also through Jesus, and will present us with you.Cross-references: Isa 26:19 · John 11:25 · Acts 2:24 · Rom 8:11 · 1Cor 6:14 · 1Cor 15:20 · +7 more

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.Cross-references: Ps 50:14 · Ps 50:23 · Rom 8:28 · 1Cor 3:21 · 2Cor 1:4 · 2Cor 1:11 · +13 more

16Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.Cross-references: Job 19:26 · Ps 27:13 · Ps 51:10 · Ps 73:26 · Ps 119:81 · Isa 40:29 · +14 more

17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Ps 30:5 · Ps 31:19 · Ps 73:24 · Ps 119:67 · Ps 119:71 · +24 more

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.Cross-references: Lev 16:25 · Matt 25:46 · Rom 8:24 · 2Cor 5:7 · 2Thess 2:16 · Heb 11:1 · +5 more