2 Corinthians 4:7-18 - Treasure In Earthenware Jars

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us; ⁸ in every way having been troubled, but not having been hemmed in; having been perplexed, but not utterly at a loss; ⁹ having been persecuted, but not having been forsaken; having been thrown down, but not having been destroyed; ¹⁰ always bearing about the dying of the Lord Jesus in the body, so that the life of Jesus also might be revealed in our body. ¹¹ For we who live are always being delivered to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus might also be revealed in our body. ¹² So then death works in us, but life in you. ¹³ For we, having the same spirit of faith (according as it is written, "I believed, and therefore I have spoken"); we also believed and therefore speak, ¹⁴ knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus shall also raise us up by Jesus, and shall present us with you. ¹⁵ For all things are for your sake, so that the superabounding grace might be made to abound through the thanksgiving of the greater number, to the glory of God.

¹⁶ For this cause we do not faint; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory, ¹⁸ we not considering the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are not lasting, but the things which are not seen are everlasting.