2 Corinthians 4:17

For our present light affliction works out for us an eternal fullness of glory, excelling all excellence,

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

In Context

16For this reason we faint not: but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

18while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen: for the things seen are temporal; but the things not seen are eternal.

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Cross References

Luke 6:23Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy; for behold, your reward is great in heaven: for so did their fathers to the prophets.

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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