2 Corinthians 4:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen `are' temporary, but the things not seen `are' age-during.

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  • 2 Cor 5:7 : 7 for through faith we walk, not through sight --
  • Heb 11:1 : 1 And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,
  • Rom 8:24-25 : 24 for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for `it'? 25 and if what we do not behold we hope for, through continuance we expect `it'.
  • 1 John 2:16-17 : 16 because all that `is' in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world, 17 and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.
  • Heb 11:13 : 13 In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted `them', and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,
  • 1 John 2:25 : 25 and this is the promise that He did promise us -- the life the age-during.
  • 2 Thess 2:16 : 16 and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,
  • Heb 11:25-27 : 25 having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season, 26 greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward; 27 by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One -- he endured;
  • Heb 12:2-3 : 2 looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down; 3 for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.

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