2 Corinthians 4:18

we not looking at the things which are visible, but the things which are invisible; for the visible things are temporary, but the invisible things are eternal.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 light burden of our affliction, which is evanescent, is working out for us an eternal weight of glory according to hyperbole unto hyperbole;

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Cross References

Matthew 25:46And these shall go away into eternal punishment: and the righteous into eternal life.

2 Corinthians 5:7(for we walk by faith, not by sight);

Hebrews 11:1But faith is the confidence of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:25choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season;

1 John 2:16because this is all that is in the world; the lust of the flesh, the lust 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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