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Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we
faint not;
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But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in
craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation
of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of
God.
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But if our gospel be
hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
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In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the
light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should
shine unto them.
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For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your
servants for Jesus' sake.
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For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in
our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the
face of Jesus Christ.
7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the
power may be of God, and not of us.
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We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but
not in despair;
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Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
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Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the
life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
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For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the
life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
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So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
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We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I
believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
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Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by
Jesus, and shall present us with you.
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For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through
the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
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For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the
inward man is renewed day by day.
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For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
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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.