Therefore, since we have this aministry, as we breceived mercy, we cdo not lose heart,
2but we have renounced the athings hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or badulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth ccommending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
3And even if our agospel is bveiled, it is veiled 1to cthose who are perishing,
4in whose case athe god of bthis 1world has cblinded the minds of the unbelieving 2so that they might not see the dlight of the gospel of the eglory of Christ, who is the fimage of God.
5For we ado not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants 1for Jesus' sake.
6For God, who said, " aLight shall shine out of darkness," is the One who has bshone in our hearts to give the cLight of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
7But we have this treasure in aearthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of bthe power will be of God and not from ourselves;
8we are aafflicted in every way, but not bcrushed; cperplexed, but not despairing;
9apersecuted, but not bforsaken; cstruck down, but not destroyed;
10aalways carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that bthe life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
11For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
12So death works in us, but life in you.
13But having the same aspirit of faith, according to what is written, " bI BELIEVED, THEREFORE I SPOKE," we also believe, therefore we also speak,
14knowing that He who araised the Lord Jesus bwill raise us also with Jesus and will cpresent us with you.
15For all things are afor your sakes, so that the grace which is 1 bspreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God.
16Therefore we ado not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our binner man is cbeing renewed day by day.
17For momentary, alight affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,
18while we alook 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.