2 Corinthians 4:7-15

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⁷But we have this treasure in jars of clay^(A) to show that this all-surpassing power is from God^(B) and not from us. ⁸We are hard pressed on every side,^(C) but not crushed; perplexed,^(D) but not in despair; ⁹persecuted,^(E) but not abandoned;^(F) struck down, but not destroyed.^(G) ¹⁰We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus,^(H) so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.^(I) ¹¹For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake,^(J) so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. ¹²So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.^(K)

¹³It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.”^[a]^(L) Since we have that same spirit of^[b] faith,^(M) we also believe and therefore speak, ¹⁴because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead^(N) will also raise us with Jesus^(O) and present us with you to himself.^(P) ¹⁵All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving^(Q) to overflow to the glory of God.

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Footnotes

2 Corinthians 4:13 Psalm 116:10 (see Septuagint)
2 Corinthians 4:13 Or Spirit-given

Isaiah 64:4-65:2

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⁴Since ancient times no one has heard,
    no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,^(A)
    who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.^(B)
⁵You come to the help of those who gladly do right,^(C)
    who remember your ways.
But when we continued to sin against them,
    you were angry.^(D)
    How then can we be saved?
⁶All of us have become like one who is unclean,^(E)
    and all our righteous^(F) acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,^(G)
    and like the wind our sins sweep us away.^(H)
⁷No one^(I) calls on your name^(J)
    or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden^(K) your face from us
    and have given us over^(L) to^[a] our sins.

⁸Yet you, Lord, are our Father.^(M)
    We are the clay, you are the potter;^(N)
    we are all the work of your hand.^(O)
⁹Do not be angry^(P) beyond measure, Lord;
    do not remember our sins^(Q) forever.
Oh, look on us, we pray,
    for we are all your people.^(R)
¹⁰Your sacred cities^(S) have become a wasteland;
    even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.^(T)
¹¹Our holy and glorious temple,^(U) where our ancestors praised you,
    has been burned with fire,
    and all that we treasured^(V) lies in ruins.
¹²After all this, Lord, will you hold yourself back?^(W)
    Will you keep silent^(X) and punish us beyond measure?

Judgment and Salvation

65 “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;
    I was found by those who did not seek me.^(Y)
To a nation^(Z) that did not call on my name,^(AA)
    I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’
²All day long I have held out my hands
    to an obstinate people,^(AB)
who walk in ways not good,
    pursuing their own imaginations^(AC)—