2 Corintios 4:16

16 Por tanto, no faltamos; antes aunque este nuestro hombre exterior se va desgastando, el interior sin embargo se renueva de día en día.

2 Corintios 4:16 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 4:16

For which cause we faint not
Since our afflictions are overruled for the good of others, and the glory of God, we are not discouraged by them; our spirits do not sink under the weight of them; we do not give out from the work of the ministry because of them, but go on cheerfully therein: and the more so, since

though our outward man perish;
our outward circumstances of life are very mean and despicable; we are oftentimes in a very distressed condition through hunger, thirst, nakedness, and want of the common necessaries of life; our bodies are almost worn out with fatigue, labour, and sorrow; our earthly tabernacles are tottering, and just ready to fall in pieces:

yet the inward man is renewed day by day;
that is, continually; it answers to (Mwy Mwyw) , an Hebraism; see ( Esther 2:11 ) ( 3:4 ) the internal hidden man of the heart, the new man is in a prosperous condition; our souls are in good health; the work of God is comfortably carried on in us; we have sweet and repeated experiences of the love of God; we are growing in grace, and in the knowledge of Christ; and, like the palm tree, the more weight is hung upon it, the more it thrives; and, like the children of Israel in Egypt, the more they were afflicted the more they grew.

2 Corintios 4:16 In-Context

14 estando ciertos que el que levantó al Señor Jesús, a nosotros también nos levantará por Jesús, y nos pondrá con vosotros.

15 Porque todas estas cosas padecemos por vosotros, para que abundando la gracia por muchos, en la acción de gracias abunde también la gloria de Dios.

16 Por tanto, no faltamos; antes aunque este nuestro hombre exterior se va desgastando, el interior sin embargo se renueva de día en día.

17 Porque nuestra tribulación, que al presente es momentáneo y leve, nos obra en sobremanera un alto y eterno peso de gloria;

18 no mirando nosotros a lo que se ve, sino a lo que no se ve; porque lo que se ve, temporal es; mas lo que no se ve, eterno.