2 Corinthians 4:7-5:10

New American Standard Bible

⁷But we have this treasure in ^[a]^(A)earthen containers, so that the extraordinary greatness of ^(B)the power will be of God and not from ourselves; ⁸we are ^(C)afflicted in every way, but not ^(D)crushed; ^(E)perplexed, but not despairing; ⁹^(F)persecuted, but not ^(G)abandoned; ^(H)struck down, but not destroyed; ¹⁰^(I)always carrying around in the body the dying of Jesus, so that ^(J)the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. ¹¹For we who live are constantly being handed over to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh. ¹²So death works in us, but life in you.

¹³But having the same ^(K)spirit of faith, according to what is written: “^(L)I believed, therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak, ¹⁴knowing that He who ^(M)raised the Lord Jesus ^(N)will also raise us with Jesus, and will ^(O)present us with you. ¹⁵For all things are ^(P)for your sakes, so that grace, having ^[b]^(Q)spread to more and more people, will cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

¹⁶Therefore we ^(R)do not lose heart, but though our outer person is decaying, yet our ^(S)inner person is ^(T)being renewed day by day. ¹⁷For our momentary, ^(U)light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, ¹⁸while we ^(V)look not 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 eternal.

The Temporal and Eternal

5 For we know that if our ^[c]^(W)earthly ^(X)tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house ^(Y)not made by hands, eternal in the heavens. ²For indeed, in this tent we ^(Z)groan, longing to be ^(AA)clothed with our ^[d]dwelling from heaven, ³since in fact after putting it on, we will not be found naked. ⁴For indeed, we who are in this tent ^(AB)groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be ^(AC)clothed, so that what is ^(AD)mortal will be swallowed up by life. ⁵Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who ^(AE)gave us the Spirit as a ^[e]pledge.

⁶Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that ^(AF)while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— ⁷for ^(AG)we walk by faith, not by ^[f]sight— ⁸but we are of good courage and ^(AH)prefer rather to be absent from the body and ^(AI)to be at home with the Lord. ⁹Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be ^(AJ)pleasing to Him. ¹⁰For we must all appear before ^(AK)the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive compensation for ^[g]his deeds done through the body, in accordance with what he has done, whether good or bad.