2 Corinthians 4:1

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Therfore, seyng that we haue such a ministerie, as we haue receaued mercie, we faynt not:

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  • 2 Thess 3:13 : 13 And ye brethren, be not weery in well doyng.
  • Gal 6:9 : 9 Let vs not be weery in well doyng: for in due season we shall reape, yf we faynt not.
  • Eph 3:13 : 13 Wherfore I desire that ye faynt not in my tribulations for you, whiche is your glorie.
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 Nowe concerning virgins I haue no commaundement of the Lord: yet geue I counsell, as one that hath obtayned mercy in the Lorde to be faythfull.
  • 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 Which hath made vs able ministers of the newe testament, not of the letter, but of the spirite: For the letter kylleth, but the spirite geueth lyfe.
  • 2 Cor 4:16 : 16 Wherefore we are not weryed: But though our outwarde man perishe, yet the inwarde man is renued day by day.
  • Rev 2:3 : 3 And hast suffred, and hast patience, and for my names sake hast laboured, and hast not faynted.
  • Isa 40:30 : 30 Children are weerie and faint, and the strongest men fall:
  • 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 Beyng a blasphemer, and a persecuter, and an oppressour: But yet I obtayned mercie, because I dyd it ignorauntly in vnbeliefe.
  • Heb 12:3 : 3 Consider therfore hym that endured such speakyng agaynst hym of sinners, lest you shoulde be weryed, fayntyng in your myndes.
  • 1 Pet 2:10 : 10 Which in time past were not a people, but are nowe the people of God: which sometime had not obteyned mercy, but nowe haue obteyned mercy.
  • 2 Cor 5:18 : 18 And all thynges are of God, whiche hath reconciled vs vnto hym selfe by Iesus Christe, and hath geuen to vs the ministerie of reconciliation.
  • 2 Cor 3:12 : 12 Seyng then that we haue such truste, we vse great boldnesse:
  • Phil 4:13 : 13 I can do all thynges through Christe, which strengtheneth me.
  • Eph 3:7-8 : 7 Wherof I am made a minister, accordyng to the gyfte of the grace of God, which is geuen vnto me after the workyng of his power. 8 Unto me the least of all saintes is this grace geuen, that I shoulde preache among the gentiles the vnsearchable ryches of Christe,

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    2But haue cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestie, and walke not in craftynesse, neither handle we the word of God disceitefully, but in openyng of the trueth, and report our selues to euery mans conscience in the syght of God.

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    15For all thynges do for your sakes, that the plenteous grace, by thankes geuyng of many, may redounde to the prayse of God.

    16Wherefore we are not weryed: But though our outwarde man perishe, yet the inwarde man is renued day by day.

    17For our exceedyng tribulation which is momentanie & lyght, prepareth an exceedyng and an eternall wayght of glorie vnto vs.

    18Whyle we loke not on the thynges whiche are seene, but on the thynges which are not seene. For the thynges which are seene, are temporall: but the things which are not seene, are eternal.

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    5For we preache not our selues, but Christe Iesus the Lord, and our selues your seruauntes for Iesus sake.

    6For it is God that commaundeth the lyght to shine out of darknesse, whiche hath shined in our heartes, for to geue the lyght of the knowledge of the glorie of God, in the face of Iesus Christe.

    7But we haue this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellencie of the power be Gods, and not ours.

    8We are troubled on euery syde, yet are we not without shyft. We are in pouertie, but not vtterly without somewhat.

    9We suffer persecution, but are not forsaken therin. We are cast downe, but we perisshe not.

    10We alwayes beare about in the body the dying of the Lorde Iesus, that the lyfe of Iesus myght also appeare in our bodie.

    11For we which lyue, are alwayes deliuered vnto death for Iesus sake, that the lyfe also of Iesu myght appeare in our mortall flesshe.

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

    13Seing then that we haue the same spirite of fayth (accordyng as it is written, I beleued, and therefore haue I spoken) We also beleue, and therefore speake.

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    5For neither at any tyme vsed we flatteryng wordes, as ye knowe, neither cloke of couetousnes, God is recorde,

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    3Let vs geue none occasion of euyll in any thyng, that the ministerie be not blamed:

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    4Such trust haue we through Christe to Godwarde.

    5Not that we are sufficiet of our selues to thynke any thyng as of our selues: but our ablenesse is of God,

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