2 Corinthians 4
1 Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we do not faint.
ON this account we have not weariness in this ministry which we have received, according to the mercies that are upon us.
2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
But we have rejected the secrets of shamefulness; and walk not with craft, nor deal deceitfully (with) the word of Aloha; but by the revelation of the truth make we ourselves manifest to the minds of all men before Aloha.
3 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,
But if our gospel is hid, to those who perish is it hid:
4 in whom the god of this age (aiōn g165) has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
(to) them whose minds the god of this world hath blinded because they believe not; lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Meshiha, who is the image of Aloha, should arise upon them. (aiōn g165)
5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,
For we preach not ourselves, but the Meshiha, Jeshu our Lord; but ourselves that we are your servants for the sake of Jeshu.
6 seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
For Aloha, who said, Let light arise from darkness, hath arisen in our hearts; that we should be illuminated by the knowledge of the glory of Aloha in the face of Jeshu Meshiha.
7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves.
BUT we have this treasure in a vase of earth, that the greatness of the power might be from Aloha, and not from us.
8 We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
But in every thing we are afflicted, yet not strangled; we are beaten, yet not condemned;
9 pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
persecuted, yet not forsaken; cast down, yet we perish not.
10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
In all time the dying of Jeshu in our bodies we bear, that the life also of Jeshu might in our bodies be revealed.
11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
For if we, the living, unto death are delivered on account of Jeshu, so also will the life of Jeshu be revealed in this our body of death.
12 So then death works in us, but life in you.
Now death in us worketh earnestly, but life in you.
13 But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke.” We also believe, and therefore we also speak,
We then also who have one spirit of faith, as it is written, I have believed, and therefore also spoken; we believe, therefore also we speak.
14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.
And we know that He who raised up our Lord Jeshu, will by Jeshu raise us also, and will present us with you unto himself.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
For every thing is for your sake, that grace, abounding by many, may multiply praise to the glory of Aloha.
16 Therefore we do not faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.
For this cause we have not weariness; for if our outward man is wasted, yet the interior man is renovated day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly a consummate (aiōnios g166) weight of glory,
For the affliction of this time, while small and light, a glory without end for ever and ever prepareth for us. (aiōnios g166)
18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are consummate (aiōnios g166).
While we look not on these which are seen, but at those which are unseen. For the seen are of time, but the unseen are of eternity. (aiōnios g166)
