2 Corinthians 4:16

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man is corrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

In Context

15For all things are for your sakes; that the grace abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God.

17For that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation, worketh for us above measure exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.

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Cross References

Job 19:26And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.

Psalms 51:10To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.

Isaiah 40:31But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

Matthew 5:29And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body be cast into hell.

Romans 7:22For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man:

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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