2 Corinthians 4:10–5:10

^10aalways carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that ^bthe life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.

¹¹For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

¹²So death works in us, but life in you.

¹³But having the same ^aspirit of faith, according to what is written, “^bI believed, therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak,

¹⁴knowing that He who ^araised the Lord Jesus ^bwill raise us also with Jesus and will ^cpresent us with you.

¹⁵For all things are ^afor your sakes, so that the grace which is ^1bspreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God.

¹⁶Therefore we ^ado not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our ^binner man is ^cbeing renewed day by day.

¹⁷For our momentary, ^alight affliction is working out for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,

¹⁸while we ^alook 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

The Temporal and Eternal

¹For we know that if ¹the ^aearthly ^btent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house ^cnot made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

²For indeed in this we ^agroan, longing to be ^bclothed with our dwelling from heaven,

³inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.

⁴For indeed while we are in this tent, we ^agroan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be ^bclothed, so that what is ^cmortal will be swallowed up by life.

⁵Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who ^agave to us the Spirit as a ¹pledge.

⁶Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that ^awhile we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—

⁷for ^awe walk by faith, not by ¹sight—

⁸we are of good courage and ^aprefer rather to be absent from the body and ^bto be at home with the Lord.

⁹Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be ^apleasing to Him.

¹⁰For we must all appear before ^athe judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for ¹his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.