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2 Corinthians 4

New Century Version NCV

1 God, with his mercy, gave us this work to do, so we don't give up.

2 But we have turned away from secret and shameful ways. We use no trickery, and we do not change the teaching of God. We teach the truth plainly, showing everyone who we are. Then they can know in their hearts what kind of people we are in God's sight.

3 If the Good News that we preach is hidden, it is hidden only to those who are lost.

4 The devil who rules this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe. They cannot see the light of the Good News -- the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is exactly like God.

5 We do not preach about ourselves, but we preach that Jesus Christ is Lord and that we are your servants for Jesus.

6 God once said, "Let the light shine out of the darkness!" This is the same God who made his light shine in our hearts by letting us know the glory of God that is in the face of Christ.

7 We have this treasure from God, but we are like clay jars that hold the treasure. This shows that the great power is from God, not from us.

8 We have troubles all around us, but we are not defeated. We do not know what to do, but we do not give up the hope of living.

9 We are persecuted, but God does not leave us. We are hurt sometimes, but we are not destroyed.

10 We carry the death of Jesus in our own bodies so that the life of Jesus can also be seen in our bodies.

11 We are alive, but for Jesus we are always in danger of death so that the life of Jesus can be seen in our bodies that die.

12 So death is working in us, but life is working in you.

13 It is written in the Scriptures, "I believed, so I spoke." Our faith is like this, too. We believe, and so we speak.

14 God raised the Lord Jesus from the dead, and we know that God will also raise us with Jesus. God will bring us together with you, and we will stand before him.

15 All these things are for you. And so the grace of God that is being given to more and more people will bring increasing thanks to God for his glory.

16 So we do not give up. Our physical body is becoming older and weaker, but our spirit inside us is made new every day.

17 We have small troubles for a while now, but they are helping us gain an eternal glory that is much greater than the troubles.

18 We set our eyes not on what we see but on what we cannot see. What we see will last only a short time, but what we cannot see will last forever.

The Darby Translation DBY

1 Therefore, having this ministry, as we have had mercy shewn us, we faint not.

2 But we have rejected the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor falsifying the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

3 But if also our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those that are lost;

4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is [the] image of God, should not shine forth [for them].

5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus' sake.

6 Because [it is] the God who spoke that out of darkness light should shine who has shone in our hearts for the shining forth of the knowledge of the glory of God in [the] face of [Jesus] Christ.

7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassingness of the power may be of God, and not from us:

8 every way afflicted, but not straitened; seeing no apparent issue, but our way not entirely shut up;

9 persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;

10 always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body;

11 for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh;

12 so that death works in us, but life in you.

13 And having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I have believed, therefore have I spoken; *we* also believe, therefore also we speak;

14 knowing that he who has raised the Lord Jesus shall raise us also with Jesus, and shall present [us] with you.

15 For all things [are] for your sakes, that the grace abounding through the many may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

16 Wherefore we faint not; but if indeed our outward man is consumed, yet the inward is renewed day by day.

17 For our momentary [and] light affliction works for us in surpassing measure an eternal weight of glory;

18 while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen [are] for a time, but those that are not seen eternal.