Modern Literal Version
[2 Corinthians 4]


     4:1 Therefore seeing we have this service, just-as we have been shown-mercy, we are not depressed. 4:2 But we have scoffed at the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 4:3 And even if our good-news is covered, it is covered among those who are perishing, 4:4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, *that* the illumination of the good-news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn for them. 4:5 For* we are not preaching ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord and ourselves as your* bondservants because of Jesus. 4:6 Because it is God, who said, НIllumination shineМ {Gen. 1:3} out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.


     4:7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that* the excellence of the power may be from God and not from ourselves. 4:8 We are pressed in every way, but not distressed; perplexed, but not despairing; 4:9 pursued, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 4:10 always carrying around in the body the death of the Lord Jesus, that* the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body.4:11 For* we who live are habitually given up to death because of Jesus, that* the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our mortal flesh. 4:12 So-then indeed, death is working in us, but life in you*.4:13 But having the same spirit of the faith, according to what has been written, НI believed and hence I spoke.М {Ps. 116:10} We also believe and hence we also speak; 4:14 knowing that he who lifted up the Lord Jesus will also lift us up through Jesus and will present us with you*. 4:15 For* all things are because of you*, in order that the grace that is increasing through the many, may causethe thanksgiving abound to the glory of God.


     4:16 Hence we are not depressed; but even if the outward man is decaying, but yet our inwardman is renewed day in and day out. 4:17 For* the momentary light weight of our affliction, is working for us a surpassingly-better eternal weight of glory; 4:18 because we are not noting the things which are seen, but note the things which are not seen; for* the things which are seen are temporary; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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