2 Corinthians 4 Having therefore this ministration, as we have obtained mercy, we do not falter,

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Having therefore this ministration, as we have obtained mercy, we do not falter, ² but have renounced the secrets of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor dealing deceitfully with the word of God, but by the clear manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. ³ If then these glad tidings of ours are veiled, they are veiled by those perishing things, ⁴ with which the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the disbelieving, that the splendour of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is an image of God, may not shine upon them. ⁵ For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake. ⁶ Because it is God, who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who hath shined in our hearts, to give a lustre of the knowledge of the glory of God in the person of Jesus Christ; ⁷ and we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may belong to God and not be from, us; ⁸ we are pressed on every side, but not utterly crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not quite forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; ¹⁰ always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may be manifested in this body of ours. ¹¹ For we, who are living, are continually delivered up to death on the account of Jesus, that the life of Jesus may be manifested in this frail flesh of ours. ¹² So that death is operative in us, and life in you. ¹³ But having the same spirit of belief as is mentioned in this portion of scripture, "I believed, therefore I spake," we also believe and therefore we speak, ¹⁴ knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also by Jesus and present us with you. ¹⁵ For all this is for your sakes that the superabounding favour may make thanksgiving by many redound the more to the glory of God. ¹⁶ For this cause we do not faint: nay though this outer man of ours is wasted, yet the inner is renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For this momentary and light affliction of ours is working out for us an eternal weight of glory, great beyond expression, ¹⁸ while we are aiming not at things seen, but at things unseen; for the things seen are temporary, but the things unseen are eternal.