2 Corinthians 4:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;

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  • Isa 40:31 : 31 But those expecting Jehovah pass `to' power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!
  • Col 3:10 : 10 and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what `is' the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
  • 2 Cor 4:1 : 1 Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,
  • Isa 40:29 : 29 He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might.
  • 1 Pet 3:4 : 4 but -- the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.
  • Eph 3:16 : 16 that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,
  • Eph 4:23 : 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
  • Ps 51:10 : 10 A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.
  • Ps 73:26 : 26 Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion `is' God to the age.
  • Ps 119:81 : 81 `Kaph.' Consumed for Thy salvation hath been my soul, For Thy word I have hoped.
  • Job 19:26-27 : 26 And after my skin hath compassed this `body', Then from my flesh I see God: 27 Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.
  • Ps 27:13 : 13 I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living!
  • Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying `it' to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one. 2 He entereth into peace, they rest on their beds, `Each' is going straightforward.
  • Matt 5:29-30 : 29 `But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna. 30 `And, if thy right hand doth cause thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
  • Titus 3:5 : 5 (not by works that `are' in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,
  • Luke 11:3 : 3 our appointed bread be giving us daily;

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    17for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --

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    6because `it is' God who said, Out of darkness light `is' to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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    8on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair;

    9persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

    10at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested,

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    7for through faith we walk, not through sight --

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    14knowing that He who did raise up the Lord Jesus, us also through Jesus shall raise up, and shall present with you,

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    23and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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