2 Corinthians 4:18

While 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.

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

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

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Cross References

Matthew 25:46And these shall go away into the torment which is eternal, and the just into the life which is eternal.

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

Hebrews 11:1Now FAITH is the persuasion concerning things which are in hope, as if they were in reality, and a revelation of those which are not seen.

Hebrews 11:25and chose to himself to be in affliction with the people of Aloha, and not for a little time to delight (himself) in sin;

1 John 2:16For every thing that is in the world, is the lust of the body, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of the world. These which are not of the Father, but they are from the world itself.

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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