2 Corinthians 4:1-6

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

So We Don’t Lose Heart In This Ministry Or Its Reception; God Is Shining Through Us

4 For this reason, having this ministry even-as^[a] we received-mercy, we do not lose-heart. ²But we renounced the hidden things of ^[b] shame, not walking in craftiness^[c], nor handling-deceitfully^[d] the word of God, but by the open-disclosure of the truth, commending^[e] ourselves to every conscience of mankind^[f] in the sight of God. ³And if indeed our good-news is veiled, it is veiled in the ones perishing, ⁴in whose case the god of this age blinded the minds of the unbelievers so that they might not see^[g] the illumination of the good-news of the glory of Christ— Who is the image of God. ⁵For we are not proclaiming ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for the sake of Jesus, ⁶because God, the One having said “Light will shine out of darkness”, is He Who shined in our hearts for^[h] the illumination of ^[i] the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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Footnotes

2 Corinthians 4:1 That is, as a gift of His grace.
2 Corinthians 4:2 That is, proceeding from shameful motives; or, resulting in shame when they become known. It is failure to attain hidden self-focused motives that causes us to lose heart.
2 Corinthians 4:2 Or, trickery. That is, using any means to gain our end.
2 Corinthians 4:2 Or, adulterating, distorting, falsifying.
2 Corinthians 4:2 Or, presenting.
2 Corinthians 4:2 That is, every individual conscience of all people with whom we come in contact.
2 Corinthians 4:4 Or, so that the illumination of the good-news of the glory of Christ might not shine-forth on them.
2 Corinthians 4:6 That is, to create in us.
2 Corinthians 4:6 That is, consisting of; or, produced by.

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