2 Corinthians 4:1

World English Bible (2000)

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don't faint.

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  • 2 Thess 3:13 : 13 But you, brothers, don't be weary in doing well.
  • Gal 6:9 : 9 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.
  • Eph 3:13 : 13 Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
  • 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
  • 2 Cor 4:16 : 16 Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
  • Rev 2:3 : 3 You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.
  • Isa 40:30 : 30 Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
  • 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
  • Heb 12:3 : 3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.
  • 1 Pet 2:10 : 10 who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
  • 2 Cor 5:18 : 18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
  • 2 Cor 3:12 : 12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
  • Phil 4:13 : 13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
  • Eph 3:7-8 : 7 of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power. 8 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

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

    16Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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

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    5For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;

    6seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone 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 clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

    8We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

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

    10always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

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

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

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    4But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

    5For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

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    8For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

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

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    16Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

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    4Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;

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    9not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

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    4who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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    13Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

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    18But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

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