2 Corinthians 4:18

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.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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 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

Matthew 25:46And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.

2 Corinthians 5:7(For we walk by faith, and not by sight.)

Hebrews 11:1Now faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not.

Hebrews 11:25Rather choosing to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have the pleasure of sin for a time,

1 John 2:16For all that is in the world, is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life, which 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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