2 Corinthians 4:18

for those, which are visible, are temporary, but the invisible are eternal.

1770 John Worsley 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 our short and light affliction is working out for us an infinite and eternal weight of glory, as we aim not at the things which are visible, but invisible:

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Cross References

Matthew 25:46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life everlasting.

2 Corinthians 5:7(for we walk by faith, not by sight,) we are confident, I say,

Hebrews 11:1Now faith is the confident expectation of things hoped for, and a conviction of things not seen:

Hebrews 11:25chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to have the temporary enjoyment of sin:

1 John 2:16For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but 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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