< 2 Corinthians 4 >
1 Because of this, having this ministry, according as we received kindness, we do not faint,
ON this account we have not weariness in this ministry which we have received, according to the mercies that are upon us.
2 but renounced for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every conscience of men, before God;
But we have rejected the secrets of shamefulness; and walk not with craft, nor deal deceitfully (with) the word of Aloha; but by the revelation of the truth make we ourselves manifest to the minds of all men before Aloha.
3 and if our good news is also veiled, it is veiled in those perishing,
But if our gospel is hid, to those who perish is it hid:
4 in whom the god of this age blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that there does not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God; (aiōn )
(to) them whose minds the god of this world hath blinded because they believe not; lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Meshiha, who is the image of Aloha, should arise upon them. (aiōn )
5 for we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus—LORD, and [we are] ourselves your servants because of Jesus;
For we preach not ourselves, but the Meshiha, Jeshu our Lord; but ourselves that we are your servants for the sake of Jeshu.
6 because [it is] God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who shined in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
For Aloha, who said, Let light arise from darkness, hath arisen in our hearts; that we should be illuminated by the knowledge of the glory of Aloha in the face of Jeshu Meshiha.
7 And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us,
BUT we have this treasure in a vase of earth, that the greatness of the power might be from Aloha, and not from us.
8 being in tribulation in every [way], but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;
But in every thing we are afflicted, yet not strangled; we are beaten, yet not condemned;
9 persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
persecuted, yet not forsaken; cast down, yet we perish not.
10 at all times carrying around in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body,
In all time the dying of Jeshu in our bodies we bear, that the life also of Jeshu might in our bodies be revealed.
11 for we who are living are always delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our dying flesh,
For if we, the living, unto death are delivered on account of Jeshu, so also will the life of Jeshu be revealed in this our body of death.
12 so that, death indeed works in us, and life in you.
Now death in us worketh earnestly, but life in you.
13 And having the same spirit of faith, according to that which has been written: “I believed, therefore I spoke”; we also believe, therefore we also speak;
We then also who have one spirit of faith, as it is written, I have believed, and therefore also spoken; we believe, therefore also we speak.
14 knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus, will also raise us up through Jesus, and will present [us] with you,
And we know that He who raised up our Lord Jeshu, will by Jeshu raise us also, and will present us with you unto himself.
15 for all things [are] because of you, that the grace having been multiplied, because of the thanksgiving of the more, may abound to the glory of God;
For every thing is for your sake, that grace, abounding by many, may multiply praise to the glory of Aloha.
16 for this reason, we do not faint, but if our outward man also decays, yet the inward is renewed day by day;
For this cause we have not weariness; for if our outward man is wasted, yet the interior man is renovated day by day.
17 for the momentary light matter of our tribulation works out for us more and more an exceedingly continuous weight of glory— (aiōnios )
For the affliction of this time, while small and light, a glory without end for ever and ever prepareth for us. (aiōnios )
18 we [are] not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen [are] temporary, but the things not seen [are] continuous. (aiōnios )
While we look not on these which are seen, but at those which are unseen. For the seen are of time, but the unseen are of eternity. (aiōnios )