4 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

⁸ We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

¹⁶ For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

¹⁷ For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

¹⁸ While we 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.