2 Corinthians 4:10–5:10

¹⁰Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies.

¹¹For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake: that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

¹²So then death worketh in us: but life in you.

¹³But having the same spirit of faith, as it is written: I believed, for which cause I have spoken; we also believe. For which cause we speak also:

¹⁴Knowing that he who raised up Jesus will raise us up also with Jesus and place us with you.

¹⁵For all things are for your sakes: that the grace, abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God.

¹⁶For which cause we faint not: but though our outward man is corrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

¹⁷For that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation worketh for us above measure, exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.

¹⁸While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal: but the things which are not seen, are eternal.

Chapter 5

For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

²For in this also we groan, desiring to be clothed upon with our habitation that is from heaven.

³Yet so that we be found clothed, not naked.

⁴For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burthened; because we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that that which is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

⁵Now he that maketh us for this very thing is God, who hath given us the pledge of the Spirit,

⁶Therefore having always confidence, knowing that while we are in the body we are absent from the Lord.

⁷(For we walk by faith and not by sight.)

⁸But we are confident and have a good will to be absent rather from the body and to be present with the Lord.

⁹And therefore we labour, whether absent or present, to please him.

¹⁰For we must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil.