2 Corinthians 4:16

World English Bible (2000)

Therefore we don't faint, 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 those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
  • Col 3:10 : 10 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man,
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
  • 2 Cor 4:1 : 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don't faint.
  • Isa 40:29 : 29 He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
  • 1 Pet 3:4 : 4 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 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 you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
  • Eph 4:23 : 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
  • Ps 51:10 : 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
  • Ps 73:26 : 26 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
  • Ps 119:81 : 81 My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
  • Job 19:26-27 : 26 After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God, 27 Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.
  • Ps 27:13 : 13 I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
  • Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come]. 2 He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
  • Matt 5:29-30 : 29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. 30 If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
  • Titus 3:5 : 5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by 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, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

    18while we don't look 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 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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    4For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

    5Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

    6Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

    7for we walk by faith, not by sight.

    8We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

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

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    14knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

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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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    23and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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

    2For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;

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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 you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

    11Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

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    4so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

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    12For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

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    16Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

    17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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    10Therefore 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 you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

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    30Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;

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    6But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

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    11For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

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    58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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