1 Therefore having received this ministry, as we have
obtained mercy, we are not note disheartened:
2 but have
rejected note shameful disguises, not walking in craftiness,
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nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but
by the manifestation of the truth, recommending ourselves
to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.
3 And if our gospel also be veiled, it is note note to those that
perish;
4 among whom the god of this world hath blinded
the minds of the unbelieving, so that the light of the glorious
gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, doth
not shine unto them:
5 for we preach not ourselves, but
Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for
the sake of Jesus.
6 For God, who commanded light to
shine out of darkness, note hath shined into our hearts, to
note reflect the light of the knowledge of the glory of God
in the note face of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the
excellence of the power might be evidently of God, and
not of us:
8 being afflicted on every side, but not oppressed;
perplexed, but not in despair;
9 persecuted, but
not forsaken;
10 cast down, but not destroyed; always
bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus,
that the life also of Jesus might be manifested in our
body.
11 For we, who are yet living, are always exposed to
death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus
may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
12 So that death is
wrought in us, but life in you.
13 But having the same Spirit of faith, according to what
is written, “I believed, and therefore have I spoken,”
we also believe, and therefore speak:
14 knowing that He,
who raised up the Lord Jesus, will raise up us also by
Jesus, and present us with you.
15 For all these things are
for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through
the note gratitude of many redound to the glory of God.
16 For which cause we are not disheartened: but though
our outward man decayeth, yet the inward man is renewed
daily.
17 For our note short and light affliction is working
out for us an note infinite and eternal weight of glory,
as we aim not at the things which are visible, but note invisible:
18
for those, which are visible, are temporary, but
the invisible are eternal.
Worsley [1770], THE NEW TESTAMENT OR NEW COVENANT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated from the Greek ACCORDING TO The Present Idiom of the English Tongue. With NOTES and REFERENCES interspersed, as occasion required, to confirm and illustrate the more literal or various Renderings given at the bottom of each page; by which even they, who do not understand the Original, may often judge for themselves of the justness and propriety of the Translation. By the late Mr. JOHN WORSLEY, of Hertford (Printed by R. Hett, LONDON) [word count] [B18100].
