2 Corinthians 4:16

For this cause we faint not; for though our outward man perish, yet the inner man is renovated day by day.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 while grace aboundeth by means of many, thanksgiving may abound to the glory of God.

17For the affliction of the present time, though very small and light, prepareth for us great glory, without end, for ever and ever;

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Cross References

Matthew 5:29If therefore thy right eye make thee offend, pluck it out, and cast it from thee; because it is better for thee that thy one member perish, than that thy whole body fall into hell.

Romans 7:22For I rejoice in the law of God, in the interior 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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