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href="/2_corinthians/4-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/4-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>So death works in us, but life in you. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/4-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I <font size="1">BELIEVED</font>, <font size="1">THEREFORE</font> I <font size="1">SPOKE</font>, we also believe, therefore we also speak, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/4-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and will present us with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/4-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>For all things <i>are</i> for your sakes, so that the grace which is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/4-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/4-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/4-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>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. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_corinthians/4.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_corinthians/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/2_corinthians/4.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_corinthians/4.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_corinthians/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our body.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/2_corinthians/4.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />always, wherever we go, carrying with us in our bodies the putting to death of Jesus, so that in our bodies it may also be clearly shown that Jesus lives.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_corinthians/4.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_corinthians/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet_talks_about_jesus/3_the_winsome_jesus.htm">The Winsome Jesus. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The Face of Jesus: Jesus drew crowds, men, women, children, bad people, enemies--His personality--face--impress of experiences--the glory of God in that face, 2 Corinthians 4:6. Hebrews 1:3. The Music of God in the Voice of Jesus: the eye--Jesus' eyes, Luke 4:16-30. John 8:59. 10:31. 7:32, 45, 46. 18:6. Mark 10:32. 9:36. 10:13-16. Luke 19:48.--His voice, Matthew 26:30. personal touch, Matthew 8:3, 15. 9:29. 17:7. 20:34. Mark 1:41. 7:33. Luke 5:13. 22:51. (John 14:16-20). His presence irresistible. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet_talks_about_jesus/3_the_winsome_jesus.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">S. D. Gordon—</span><span class="citation2">Quiet Talks about Jesus</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/looking_at_the_unseen.htm">Looking at the Unseen</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.'--2 COR. iv. 18. Men may be said to be divided into two classes, materialists and idealists, in the widest sense of those two words. The mass care for, and are occupied by, and regard as really solid good, those goods which can be touched and enjoyed by sense. The minority--students, thinkers, men of ideas, moralists, and the like--believe in, and care for, impalpable spiritual riches. Everybody admits that the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/looking_at_the_unseen.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Romans, Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_32_1886/the_heart_of_the_gospel.htm">The Heart of the Gospel</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Let me give you a parable. In the days of Nero there was great shortness of food in the city of Rome, although there was abundance of corn to be purchased at Alexandria. A certain man who owned a vessel went down to the sea coast, and there he noticed many hungry people straining their eyes toward the sea, watching for the vessels that were to come from Egypt with corn. When these vessels came to the shore, one by one, the poor people wrung their hands in bitter disappointment, for on board the galleys <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_32_1886/the_heart_of_the_gospel.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 32: 1886</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/singh/at_the_masters_feet/section_ii_1_in_the.htm">In the Bitter Cold of Winter the Trees Stand Bare of Leaves...</a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. In the bitter cold of winter the trees stand bare of leaves, and it seems as if their life, too, had departed for ever, yet in the spring time they put forth new leaves and beautiful flowers, and the fruit begins to show itself. So was it with Me in My crucifixion and resurrection, and so it is with my faithful cross-bearers (2 Cor. iv.8-11; vi.4-10). Though they seem to be crushed and dead beneath their cross they still put forth the beautiful flowers and glorious fruits of eternal life which <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/singh/at_the_masters_feet/section_ii_1_in_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Sadhu Sundar Singh—</span><span class="citation2">At The Master's Feet</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/the_ideal_life/clairvoyance.htm">Clairvoyance</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"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 COR. iv. 18. "Everything that is, is double."--Hermes Trismegistus. "LOOK not at the things which are seen." How can we look not at the things which are seen? If they are seen, how can we help looking at them? "Look at the things which are not seen." How can we look at things which are not seen? Has religion some magic wishing-cap, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/the_ideal_life/clairvoyance.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Henry Drummond—</span><span class="citation2">The Ideal Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/schaff/the_person_of_christ/conclusion.htm">Conclusion. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">NEBICULA est; transibit,"--"It is a little cloud; it will pass away." This was said first, I believe, by Athanasius, of Julian the Apostate who, after a short reign of intense hostility to Christianity, perished with his work, "leaving no wreck behind."[97]97 The same may be applied to all the recent attempts to undermine the faith of humanity in the person of its divine Lord and Saviour. The clouds, great and small, pass away; the sun continues to shine: darkness has its hour; the light is eternal. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/schaff/the_person_of_christ/conclusion.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Philip Schaff—</span><span class="citation2">The Person of Christ</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/meditations_of_the_blessed_state.htm">Meditations of the Blessed State of a Regenerate Man in Heaven. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Here my meditation dazzles, and my pen falls out of my hand; the one being not able to conceive, nor the other to describe, that most excellent bliss, and eternal weight of glory (2 Cor. iv. 17; Rom. viii. 18)--whereof all the afflictions of this present life are not worthy--which all the elect shall with the blessed Trinity enjoy, from that time that they shall be received with Christ, as joint-heirs (Rom. viii. 17) into that everlasting kingdom of joy. Notwithstanding, we may take a scantling thereof. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/meditations_of_the_blessed_state.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Lewis Bayly—</span><span class="citation2">The Practice of Piety</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bevan/hymns_of_ter_steegen_suso_and_others/out_of_the_depths.htm">Out of the Depths</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Heinrich Suso 2 Cor. iv. 17 "O Father! not my will, but Thine be done!" Thus with my lips I say; Yet lags the heart, the while the lips would run-- My heart, it sayeth "Nay." "Be comforted, O child of My delight, Though yet thy heart complain; For I would have thee suffer when I smite, Or pain would not be [g]ain. "Were it a chastening if it were not grief? Yet for a moment tears-- Then glows the spring where fell the yellow leaf, Of Heaven's eternal years. "For sorrow is the sorrow of an hour, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bevan/hymns_of_ter_steegen_suso_and_others/out_of_the_depths.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Frances Bevan—</span><span class="citation2">Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso, and Others</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bevan/hymns_of_ter_steegen_suso_and_others/light_of_a_stone_most.htm">Light of a Stone Most Precious</a><br></span><span class="snippet">P. G. 2 Cor. iv. 6, 7 God in heaven hath a treasure, Riches none may count or tell; Hath a deep eternal pleasure, Christ, the Son He loveth well. God hath here on earth a treasure, None but He its price may know-- Deep unfathomable pleasure, Christ revealed in saints below. Christ, the light that fills the heavens Shining forth on earth beneath, Through His Spirit freely given Light of life midst shades of death; Down from heaven's unclouded glory God Himself the treasure brought, Closing thus <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bevan/hymns_of_ter_steegen_suso_and_others/light_of_a_stone_most.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Frances Bevan—</span><span class="citation2">Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso, and Others</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/athanasius/select_works_and_letters_or_athanasius/section_3_-1_the_council.htm">The Council of Nicæa. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">An ecumenical council was a new experiment. Local councils had long since grown to be a recognised organ of the Church both for legislation and for judicial proceedings. But no precedent as yet prescribed, no ecclesiastical law or theological principle had as yet enthroned, the General Council' as the supreme expression of the Church's mind. Constantine had already referred the case of the Donatists first to a select council at Rome under bishop Miltiades, then to what Augustine (Ep. 43) has been <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/athanasius/select_works_and_letters_or_athanasius/section_3_-1_the_council.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Athanasius—</span><span class="citation2">Select Works and Letters or Athanasius</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_50_condemned_to_die.htm">Condemned to Die</a><br></span><span class="snippet">During Paul's final trial before Nero, the emperor had been so strongly impressed with the force of the apostle's words that he deferred the decision of the case, neither acquitting nor condemning the accused servant of God. But the emperor's malice against Paul soon returned. Exasperated by his inability to check the spread of the Christian religion, even in the imperial household, he determined that as soon as a plausible pretext could be found, the apostle should be put to death. Not long afterward <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_50_condemned_to_die.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Acts of the Apostles</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_corinthians/4-10.htm">2 Corinthians 4:10 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/2_corinthians/4-10.htm">2 Corinthians 4:10 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/2_corinthians/4-10.htm">2 Corinthians 4:10 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/2_corinthians/4-10.htm">2 Corinthians 4:10 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/2_corinthians/4-10.htm">2 Corinthians 4:10 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_corinthians/4-10.htm">2 Corinthians 4:10 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/2_corinthians/4-10.htm">2 Corinthians 4:10 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_corinthians/4-9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Corinthians 4:9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Corinthians 4:9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_corinthians/4-11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Corinthians 4:11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Corinthians 4:11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/2_corinthians/4-10.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>