2 Corinthians 4:16

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Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

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  • Isa 40:31 : 31 But those who wait for the LORD’s help find renewed strength; they rise up as if they had eagles’ wings, they run without growing weary, they walk without getting tired.
  • Col 3:10 : 10 and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God– what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
  • 2 Cor 4:1 : 1 Paul’s Perseverance in Ministry Therefore, since we have this ministry, just as God has shown us mercy, we do not become discouraged.
  • Isa 40:29 : 29 He gives strength to those who are tired; to the ones who lack power, he gives renewed energy.
  • 1 Pet 3:4 : 4 but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
  • Eph 3:16 : 16 I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he will grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,
  • Eph 4:23 : 23 to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
  • Ps 51:10 : 10 Create for me a pure heart, O God! Renew a resolute spirit within me!
  • Ps 73:26 : 26 My flesh and my heart may grow weak, but God always protects my heart and gives me stability.
  • Ps 119:81 : 81 כ(Kaf) I desperately long for your deliverance. I find hope in your word.
  • Job 19:26-27 : 26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God, 27 whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.
  • Ps 27:13 : 13 Where would I be if I did not believe I would experience the LORD’s favor in the land of the living?
  • Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil. 2 Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds.
  • Matt 5:29-30 : 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell. 30 If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
  • Titus 3:5 : 5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
  • Luke 11:3 : 3 Give us each day our daily bread,

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    17For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison

    18because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

  • 2 Cor 4:6-12
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    6For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

    7An Eternal Weight of Glory But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

    8We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair;

    9we are persecuted, but not abandoned; we are knocked down, but not destroyed,

    10always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

    11For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.

    12As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

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    4For we groan while we are in this tent, since we are weighed down, because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

    5Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

    6Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord–

    7for we live by faith, not by sight.

    8Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

    9So then whether we are alive or away, we make it our ambition to please him.

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    14We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.

    15For all these things are for your sake, so that the grace that is including more and more people may cause thanksgiving to increase to the glory of God.

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    9Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

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    23to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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    18And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 4:10-12
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    10We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, we are dishonored!

    11To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads.

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    4As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.

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    16So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.

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    10Therefore I am content with weaknesses, with insults, with troubles, with persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

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    11For if what was made ineffective came with glory, how much more has what remains come in glory!

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    58So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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