2 Corinthians 4:3

World English Bible (2000)

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;

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  • 1 Cor 1:18 : 18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
  • 2 Cor 3:14 : 14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
  • 1 Thess 1:5 : 5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
  • 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
  • 1 Tim 1:11 : 11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
  • 2 Cor 2:12 : 12 Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,
  • 2 Cor 2:15-16 : 15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish; 16 to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
  • Rom 2:16 : 16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

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  • 2 Cor 4:4-7
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    4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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

    6 seeing 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.

    7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

  • 2 Cor 4:1-2
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    1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don't faint.

    2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

  • 2 Cor 3:13-16
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    13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn't look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.

    14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

    15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.

    16 But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

  • Eph 4:17-18
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    17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

    18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

  • Mark 4:11-12
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    11 He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

    12 that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"

  • 1 Cor 2:7-8
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    7 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

    8 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.

  • 1 Cor 1:18
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    18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

  • 2 Thess 2:10
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    10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

  • Col 1:26-27
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    26 the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

    27 to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

  • Col 3:3-4
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    3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

    4 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

  • 2 Cor 4:17-18
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    17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

    18 while 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.

  • Mark 4:22
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    22 For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.

  • Eph 3:9
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    9 and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ;

  • 1 Thess 2:4
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    4 But 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.

  • Eph 3:3-5
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    3 how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

    4 by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ;

    5 which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

  • 1 Cor 1:21
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    21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

  • Col 2:3
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    3 in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

  • 2 Thess 2:14
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    14 to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Rom 16:25
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  • Luke 8:17
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    17 For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed; nor anything secret, that will not be known and come to light.

  • Gal 1:6-7
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    6 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news";

    7 and there isn't another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

  • 2 Thess 1:8
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    8 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

  • Luke 24:16
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    16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.

  • Rom 2:16
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    16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

  • 2 Cor 3:18
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    18 But 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.

  • Col 4:4
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    4 that I may reveal it as I ought to speak.

  • 1 Cor 2:10
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    10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

  • 2 Cor 4:10-11
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    10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:3
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    3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

  • 2 Cor 5:3
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    3 if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.

  • 1 Cor 1:23
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    23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

  • Rom 1:19
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    19 because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.