2 Corinthians 4:10–5:10

^10qalways carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, ^rthat the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. ¹¹For we who live ^sare always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. ¹²So then death is working in us, but life in you.

¹³And since we have ^tthe same spirit of faith, according to what is written, ^u“I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak, ¹⁴knowing that ^vHe who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. ¹⁵For ^wall things are for your sakes, that ^xgrace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

Seeing the Invisible

¹⁶Therefore we ^ydo not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is ^zbeing renewed day by day. ¹⁷For ^aour light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, ^18bwhile we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Assurance of the Resurrection

5For we know that if ^aour earthly ¹house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house ^bnot made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ²For in this ^cwe groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our ²habitation which is from heaven, ³if indeed, ^dhaving been clothed, we shall not be found naked. ⁴For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, ^ebut further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. ⁵Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also ^fhas given us the Spirit as ³a guarantee.

⁶So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. ⁷For ^gwe walk by faith, not by sight. ⁸We are confident, yes, ^hwell pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

The Judgment Seat of Christ

⁹Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. ¹⁰ⁱFor we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, ^jthat each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.