2 Corinthians 4:16

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

Noyes Bible

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 by means of the greater number may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us, in a higher and still higher degree, an everlasting weight of glory;

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Cross References

Job 19:26And though with my skin this body be wasted away, Yet without my flesh shall I see God.

Psalms 51:10Create within me a clean heart, O God! Renew within me a steadfast spirit!

Psalms 119:81My soul fainteth for thy salvation; In thy promise do I trust.

Isaiah 40:31But they that trust in Jehovah shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles; They shall run and not be weary; They shall walk and not faint.

Matthew 5:29And if thy right eye cause thee to offend, pluck it out, and cast it from thee; for it is better for thee that one of thy members should perish, than that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Romans 7:22For I delight in the Law of God, as 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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