THEREFORE, having this ministry, as we received mercy, we faint not. (2)But we renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor falsifying the word of God; but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. (3)But if our gospel is vailed, it is vailed in those who perish; (4)in whom the god of this world blinded the understandings of the unbelieving, that they should not discern the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God[4:4]. (5)For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord; and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. (6)Because it is God, who commands light to shine out of darkness; who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. (7)But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be God's, and not of us; (8)being pressed in every way, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not despairing; (9)persecuted, yet not forsaken; cast down, yet not destroyed; (10)always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that also the life of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. (11)For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. (12)So that death works in us, but life in you. (13)But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I believed, therefore did I speak, we also believe, therefore also speak; (14)knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise up us also with Jesus, and will present us with you. (15)For all things are for your sakes; that the grace, abounding through the greater number, might make the thanksgiving more abundant, to the glory of God. (16)For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is renewed day by day: (17)For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works out for us a far more exceeding, an eternal weight of glory; (18)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. V. FOR we know that, if our earthly house of the tabernacle[5:1] were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. (2)For in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven; (3)seeing that we shall be found clothed, not naked[5:3]. (4)For we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; in that we do not desire to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon, that what is mortal might be swallowed up by life.