2 Corinthians 4:18
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- while we don’t look 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.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen [are] for a time, but those that are not seen eternal.
- BLB
- in [our] not looking at the things being seen, but the things not being seen. For the things being seen [are] temporary, but the things not being seen [are] eternal.
- ÅB
- såsom vi ikke har det synlige for øye, men det usynlige; for det synlige er timelig, men det usynlige evig
- OTB
- Mens vi ikke ser på de ting som er synlige, men på de ting som er usynlige; for de ting som er synlige er midlertidige, men de ting som er usynlige er evige.
- B1930
- såsom vi ikke har det synlige for øie, men det usynlige; for det synlige er timelig, men det usynlige evig
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Corinthians 5:7
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
Read in contextRomans 8:24–25
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Read in contextHebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Read in context1 John 2:16–17
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Read in context1 John 2:25
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
Read in contextHebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Read in contextHebrews 12:2–3
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Read in contextHebrews 11:25–27
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
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