2 Corinthians 4:18

While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are 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 present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

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Cross References

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

2 Corinthians 5:7(For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)

Hebrews 11:1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.

Hebrews 11:25Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;

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