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          DASV: 2 Corinthians 4    

1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, by God's mercy, we
do not lose heart.
2 We have renounced the hidden shameful deeds and underhanded
practices, and handling God's word deceitfully, but by the
open declaration of the truth we commend ourselves to
everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those
who are perishing.
4 In whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds
of the unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of
the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord,
and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
6 For it is God who said, "Let there be light shining out of
darkness," who shined 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 jars of clay, that the
extraordinary power may be from God, and not from us.
8 We are afflicted on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed,
yet not to the point of despair;
9 persecuted, but not forsaken; knocked down, but not destroyed;
10 always carrying in our body the death of Jesus, so that
the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our bodies.
11 For we who live are constantly being handed over to death
for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be
manifested in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death is at work in us, but life in you.
13 But since we have the same spirit of faith, according to
what is written, "I believed, and so I spoke," we also believe
and so we also speak.
14 We know that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise
us also with Jesus, and will bring us with you into his
presence.
15 For all this is for your sakes, so that the grace,
reaching more and more people, may result in thanksgiving
being increased to the glory of God.
16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward
body is wasting away, yet our inward being is renewed day by day.
17 For our momentary and light suffering produces for us an
eternal weight of glory beyond comparison,
18 because we look not at things that can be seen, but at
what cannot be seen. For the things that can be seen are
temporary; but what cannot be seen is eternal.

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