2 Corinthians 4:18

while we look not at things seen, but at things not seen. For things seen are temporal, but things not seen are eternal.

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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.

In Context

17For our slight momentary affliction works for us an eternal weight of glory from extraordinariness to extraordinariness,

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Cross References

Matthew 25:46And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

2 Corinthians 5:7for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Hebrews 11:1Now faith is the foundation of hoping, the evidence of events not being seen.

Hebrews 11:25having chosen rather to be mistreated with the people of God, than to have the pleasure of sin temporarily.

1 John 2:16Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 4:9-18

The Apostles' Sufferings and Supports. ( a. d. 57.) 8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 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. 11 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. 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in… Read the whole commentary →

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