1Therefore since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not faint. 2But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the Word of God, but [by] the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 3But also if our gospel is hidden, it is hidden to those being lost, 4in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving ones, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ (who is the image of God) should not dawn on them. 5For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 6For [it is] God who said, Out of darkness Light shall shine; who shone in our hearts to [give] the brightness of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us; 8in every [way] having been troubled, but not having been hemmed in; having been perplexed, but not utterly at a loss; 9having been persecuted, but not having been forsaken; having been thrown down, but not having been destroyed; 10always bearing about the dying of the Lord Jesus in the body, so that the life of Jesus also might be revealed in our body. 11For we who live are always being delivered to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus might also be revealed in our body. 12So then death works in us, but life in you. 13For we, having the same spirit of faith (according as it is written, I believed, and therefore I have spoken); we also believed and therefore speak, 14knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus shall also raise us up by Jesus, and shall present [us] with you. 15For all things [are] for your sake, so that the superabounding grace might be made to abound through the thanksgiving of the greater number, to the glory of God. 16For this cause we do not faint; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward [man] is being renewed day by day. 17For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory, 18we not considering the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen; for the things which [are] seen [are] not lasting, but the things which [are] not seen [are] everlasting.