King James Version (KJV)
2 Corinthians 4:17
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;”
Verse in context — 2 Corinthians 4
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For all things [are] for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
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For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.
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For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;
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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.
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Paul’s defense of his ministry and encouragement in hardship.
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