2 Corinthians 4:18

while we look not at these seen things, but at those not seen; for these seen things are temporary, but those not seen are eternal.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 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 25:46And these will go into everlasting torment, and the righteous into everlasting life.

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

Hebrews 11:1Now faith is the persuasion of the things that are in hope, as if they were in act; and it is the manifestness of the things not seen.

Hebrews 11:25And he chose to be in affliction with the people of God, and not to live luxuriously in sin for a short season:

1 John 2:16For all that is in the world, is, the lust of the body, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of the world; which are not from the Father, but 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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