2 Corinthians 4:10–5:10

¹⁰always carrying around in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies.^{* 11}For we who are living are always being handed over to death for Jesus’s sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal flesh. ¹²So death is at work in us but life in you.

¹³But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture—“I believed, and so I spoke”—we also believe, and therefore we also speak,^{* 14}because we know that the one who raised Jesus^r will also raise us with Jesus and will present us with you in his presence.^{* 15}Indeed, everything is for your sake, so that grace, when it has extended to more and more people, may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

Living by Faith

¹⁶So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.^{* 17}For our slight, momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure,^{* 18}because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen, for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.^*

⁵For we know that, if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.^{* 2}For in this tent we groan, longing to be further clothed with our heavenly dwelling, ³for surely when we have been clothed in it^s we will not be found naked. ⁴For while we are in this tent, we groan under our burden because we wish not to be unclothed but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.^{* 5}The one who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a down payment.^*

⁶So we are always confident, even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord—⁷for we walk by faith, not by sight.^{* 8}Yes, we do have confidence, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. ⁹So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to him. ¹⁰For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may receive due recompense for actions done in the body, whether good or evil.^*