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

⁷ But I possess this treasure in a frail vessel of earth, to show that the transcending power belongs to God, not to myself; ⁸ on every side I am harried but not hemmed in, perplexed but not despairing, ⁹ persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed ??10 wherever I go, I am being killed in the body as Jesus was, so that the life of Jesus may come out in my body: ¹¹ every day of my life I am being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may come out within my mortal flesh. ¹² In me then death is active, in you life. ¹³ But since our spirit of faith is the same, therefore ??as it is written I believed and so I spoke ??I too believe and so I speak, ¹⁴ sure that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise me too with Jesus and set me at your side in his presence. ¹⁵ It is all in your interests, so that the more grace abounds, the more thanksgiving may rise and redound to the glory of God.

¹⁶ Hence I never lose heart; though my outward man decays, my inner man is renewed day after day. ¹⁷ The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison, ¹⁸ for those of us whose eyes are on the unseen, not on the seen; for the seen is transient, the unseen eternal.