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Therefore we do not lose heart, but even if our outer person is being destroyed, yet our inner [person] is being renewed day after day.
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For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory {beyond all measure and proportion},
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[because] we are not looking at what is seen, but what is not seen. For what is seen [is] temporary, but what is not seen [is] eternal.
Footnotes 1
[a].
*Here "[because]" is supplied as a component of the causal genitive absolute participle ("looking at")
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