2 Corinthians 4:7-18 - Treasure In Earthenware Jars
7 And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the eminence of power be of God, and not of us. 8 Being pressed in every thing, but not straightened; being at a loss, but not utterly perplexed; 9 Being driven out, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed; 10 Always bearing about in the body the death of the Lord Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our body. 11 For we, the living, are always delivered to death for Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12 So that death is truly energetic in us, and life in you. 13 And having the same spirit of faith, according to that written, I believed, therefore I spake: and we believe, and therefore we speak; 14 Knowing that he having raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us by Jesus, and present us with you. 15 For all things for you, that grace, having abounded by the many, might abound in thanksgiving to the glory of God.
16 Wherefore we lose not courage; but if also our man without is destroyed, but he within is renewed day and day. 17 For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence; 18 We looking not at things seen, but at things not seen: for things seen, temporary; and things not seen, eternal