On this account, having this ministry, according as we obtained mercy, we faint not,
but refused the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor guilefully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men in the sight of God.
But if even our gospel is veiled, in those that perish it is veiled,
in whom the god of this age blinded the minds of the faithless, that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is [the] image of God, should not shine forth.
For not ourselves do we preach, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus’ sake,
because it is the God that bade light shine out of darkness, who shone in our hearts for the illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
But we have this treasure in earthenware vessels, that the surpassingness of the power may be God’s, and not of us,
in everything being afflicted, yet not straitened, sorely yet not utterly perplexed,
persecuted yet not forsaken, cast down yet not destroyed,
always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.
For we that live are ever being delivered up unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
So that death worketh in us, but life in you.
But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed wherefore [also] I spake: we also believe, wherefore also we speak;
knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present [us] with you.
For all things [are] for your sakes, that the grace having multiplied through the greater number might make the thanksgiving abound to the glory of God.
Wherefore we fail not; but even if our outer man is consuming, yet the inner is being renewed day by day.
For the momentary lightness of our affliction worketh out for us in surpassing measure an eternal weight of glory:
while we have the eye not on the things that are seen, but on those not seen, for the things seen [are] temporary, but those not seen, eternal.