2 Corinthians 4:18

we, all the while, gazing not on what is seen, but on what is unseen; for what is seen is transient, but what is unseen is imperishable.

Twentieth Century New Testament

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

17The light burden of our momentary trouble is preparing for us, in measure transcending thought, a weight of imperishable glory;

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Cross References

Matthew 25:46And these last will go away ‘into aeonian punishment,’ but the righteous ‘into aeonian life.’”

2 Corinthians 5:7For we guide our lives by faith, and not by what we see.

Hebrews 11:1Faith is the realisation of things hoped for — the proof of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:25He preferred sharing the hardships of God’s People to enjoying the short-lived pleasures of sin.

1 John 2:16for all that the world can offer — the gratification of the earthly nature, the gratification of the eye, the pretentious life — belongs, not to the Father, but to 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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