4 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not: ² but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. ³ And even if our ^[a]gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that ^[b]perish: ⁴ in whom the god of this ^[c]world hath blinded the ^[d]minds of the unbelieving, ^[e]that the ^[f]light of the ^[g]gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them. ⁵ For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your ^[h]servants ^[i]for Jesus’ sake. ⁶ Seeing it is God, that said, ^[j]Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the ^[k]light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves; ⁸ we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; ⁹ pursued, yet not ^[l]forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; ¹⁰ always bearing about in the body the ^[m]dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. ¹¹ For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. ¹² So then death worketh in us, but life in you. ¹³ But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, ^[n]I believed, and therefore did I speak; we also believe, and therefore also we speak; ¹⁴ knowing that he that raised up ^[o]the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you. ¹⁵ For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through ^[p]the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God.

¹⁶ Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; ¹⁸ while 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.