Cast Down but Unconquered

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, ^(A)that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.

^5 (A)Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but ^(B)our sufficiency is from God, ⁶ who also made us sufficient as ^(C)ministers of ^(D)the new covenant, not ^(E)of the letter but of the ^[a]Spirit; for ^(F)the letter kills, ^(G)but the Spirit gives life.

Assurance of the Resurrection

5 For we know that if ^(A)our earthly ^[a]house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house ^(B)not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

^8 (A)For by grace you have been saved ^(B)through faith, and that not of yourselves; ^(C)it is the gift of God, ⁹ not of ^(D)works, lest anyone should ^(E)boast.

²⁸ and the ^[a]base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,

^3 (A)in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

^3 (A)I was with you ^(B)in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. ⁴ And my speech and my preaching ^(C)were not with persuasive words of ^[a]human wisdom, ^(D)but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵ that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the ^(E)power of God.

¹⁹ and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, ^(A)according to the working of His mighty power ²⁰ which He worked in Christ when ^(B)He raised Him from the dead and ^(C)seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,