2 Corinthians

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.

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

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

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

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

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;

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus" sake.

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.

But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

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.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: