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

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellent power of it might appear to be of God, and not of us. ⁸ We are troubled on every side, yet are we not without shift. We are in poverty: but not utterly without somewhat. ⁹ We are persecuted: but are not forsaken. We are cast down: nevertheless we perish not. ¹⁰ And we always bear in our bodies the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus might appear in our bodies. ¹¹ For we which live, are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might appear in our mortal flesh. ¹² So then death worketh in us, and life in you. ¹³ Seeing then that we have the same spirit of faith, according as it is written - "I believed and therefore have I spoken" - we also believe, and therefore speak. ¹⁴ For we know that he which raised up the Lord Jesus, shall raise up us, also, by the means of Jesus, and shall set us with you; ¹⁵ for all things I do for your sakes, that the plenteous grace by thanks given of many, may redound to the praise of God.

¹⁶ Wherefore, we are not wearied: but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For our exceeding tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepareth an exceeding and eternal weight of glory unto us, ¹⁸ while we look not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen. For things which are seen, are temporal: but things which are not seen are eternal.