2 Corinthians 4:17

For the affliction of this time, while small and light, a glory without end for ever and ever prepareth for us.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

In Context

16For this cause we have not weariness; for if our outward man is wasted, yet the interior man is renovated day by day.

18While we look not on these which are seen, but at those which are unseen. For the seen are of time, but the unseen are of eternity.

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Cross References

Luke 6:23Rejoice in that day, and exult, for your reward is great in heaven; for thus did they to your fathers the prophets.

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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