KJ3 Literal Translation
2 Corinthians 4
He declares how he has used all sincerity and faithful diligence in preaching the gospel.
1Because of this, having this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we do not fail in heart.
2But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor corrupting the Word of God, but by the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.
3But if even our gospel is being hidden, it has been hidden in the ones perishing,
4in whom the god of this age has blinded the thoughts of the faithless ones, so that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.
5For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves your slaves for the sake of Jesus.
6Because it is God who said, “Out of darkness Light shall shine,” the One who shone in our hearts to give the illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Isa. 42:6, 7, 16
7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not from us;
8in every way being pressed, but not being constricted; being perplexed, but not utterly despairing;
9being persecuted, but not being forsaken; being thrown down, but not perishing;
10alway bearing about the dying of the Lord Jesus in the body, that also the life of Jesus may be revealed in our body.
11For we, the ones living, are always being given over to death on account of Jesus, that also the life of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh;
12so that death indeed works in us, and life in you.
13But having the same spirit of faith, according to the thing having been written, “I believed, therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak, LXX-Psa. 115:1; MT-Psa. 116:10
14knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up through Jesus, and will present us with you.
15For all things are for you, that the grace, superabounding through the greater number may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
16Therefore we do not fail in heart, but if indeed our outward man is being consumed, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
17For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us an eternal weight of glory, surpassing moment by surpassing moment;
18we not looking at the things being seen, but the things not being seen; for the things being seen are not lasting, but the things not being seen are everlasting.
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