2 Corinthians 4:10–5:10

¹⁰always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body; ¹¹for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh; ¹²so that death works in us, but life in you. ¹³And having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I have believed, therefore have I spoken; we also believe, therefore also we speak; ¹⁴knowing that he who has raised the Lord Jesus shall raise us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you. ¹⁵For all things are for your sakes, that the grace abounding through the many may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God. ¹⁶Wherefore we faint not; but if indeed our outward man is consumed, yet the inward is renewed day by day. ¹⁷For our momentary and light affliction works for us in surpassing measure an eternal weight of glory; ¹⁸while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen are for a time, but those that are not seen eternal.

Chapter 5

¹For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ²For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which is from heaven; ³if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked. ⁴For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. ⁵Now he that has wrought us for this very thing is God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit. ⁶Therefore we are always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord, ⁷(for we walk by faith, not by sight;) ⁸we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. ⁹Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him. ¹⁰For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things done in the body, according to those he has done, whether it be good or evil.