to focus attention on the invisible reality of God’s sustaining and transforming work within. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. This statement, together with 4:17–18, provides further rationale for why Paul does not lose hope: present renewal (4:16), future glory (4:17), and an eternal perspective (4:18). Paul refocuses the thought of verses 10 and 11, which describe his hardship as “being given over to death,” and concentrates now on the inevitable