2 Corinthians 4:16

American Standard Version (1901)

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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  • Isa 40:31 : 31 but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
  • Col 3:10 : 10 and have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him:
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
  • 2 Cor 4:1 : 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not:
  • Isa 40:29 : 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.
  • 1 Pet 3:4 : 4 but [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible [apparel] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
  • Eph 3:16 : 16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
  • Eph 4:23 : 23 and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
  • Ps 51:10 : 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.
  • Ps 73:26 : 26 My flesh and my heart faileth; [But] God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
  • Ps 119:81 : 81 KAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation; [But] I hope in thy word.
  • Job 19:26-27 : 26 And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God; 27 Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
  • Ps 27:13 : 13 [ I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living.
  • Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come] . 2 He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.
  • Matt 5:29-30 : 29 And if thy right eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell. [ 30 And if thy right hand causeth thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body go into hell.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.
  • Titus 3:5 : 5 not by works [done] in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
  • Luke 11:3 : 3 Give us day by day our daily bread.

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    17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

    18while 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 4:6-12
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    6Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

    7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;

    8[ we are] pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;

    9pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;

    10always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

    11For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

    12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

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    1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not:

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    4For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

    5Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

    6Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord

    7(for we walk by faith, not by sight);

    8we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

    9Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.

  • 2 Cor 4:14-15
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    14knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you.

    15For all things [are] for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God.

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    8For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell [us] in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

    9yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:

  • Eph 4:23
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    23and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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    1For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

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    18But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.

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    10We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.

    11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;

    12and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

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    4so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

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    3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh

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    13Wherefore I ask that ye may not faint at my tribulations for you, which are your glory.

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    9as unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

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    12We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.

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    16Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know [him so] no more.

    17Wherefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

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    10Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

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    9For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

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    16holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.

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    18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.

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    30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

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    6But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:

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    36Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

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    11For if that which passeth away [was] with glory, much more that which remaineth [is] in glory.

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    58Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.

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    4Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.