2 Corinthians 4:18

we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen [are] temporary, but the things not seen [are] age-during.

Young's Literal Translation

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 momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us —

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Cross References

Matthew 25:46And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'

2 Corinthians 5:7for through faith we walk, not through sight —

Hebrews 11:1And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

Hebrews 11:25having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season,

1 John 2:16because all that [is] in the world — the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the 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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