2 Corinthians 4:16

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.

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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, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

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Cross References

Job 19:26After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,

Psalms 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Psalms 119:81My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

Isaiah 40:31but those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Matthew 5:29If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

Romans 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,

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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