2 Corinthians 4:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Isa 40:31 : 31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.
  • Col 3:10 : 10 And have put on the new [man], which is renewed in 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 conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
  • 2 Cor 4:1 : 1 ¶ Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
  • Isa 40:29 : 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength.
  • 1 Pet 3:4 : 4 But [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
  • Eph 3:16 : 16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
  • Eph 4:23 : 23 And 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 ¶ CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope in thy word.
  • Job 19:26-27 : 26 And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God: 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; [though] my reins be consumed within me.
  • Ps 27:13 : 13 [I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD 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 shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, [each one] walking [in] his uprightness.
  • Matt 5:29-30 : 29 ‹And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast› [it] ‹from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not› [that] ‹thy whole body should be cast into hell.› 30 ‹And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast› [it] ‹from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not› [that] ‹thy whole body should be cast into hell.›
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 ¶ Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
  • Titus 3:5 : 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
  • Luke 11:3 : 3 ‹Give us day by day our daily bread.›

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