\subsection{II Corinthians 4}
\VS{1} Because of this, having this service, just as we have received mercy, we 
despair not, 
\VS{2} but we have renounced the secret [things] of disgrace, not 
walking [about] in cunning, nor adulterating the word of God, but in the 
manifestation of the truth having commended ourselves to every conscience of 
men before God. 
\VS{3} But if our good-news is hidden, it is hidden from 
those perishing, 
\VS{4} in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of 
the non-believing, lest the illumination of the good-news of the glory of 
Christ, who is the image of God, shine forth. 
\VS{5} For we proclaim not 
ourselves, but Christ Jesus [the] Lord, and ourselves your slaves through Jesus. 
\VS{6} For God [is] the [one] having said: From darkness will light shine, who has shone into our hearts to [give] the illumination of the knowledge of the 
glory of God before the face of Christ. 
\VS{7} So we have this treasure in clay vessels, in order that the excellence of 
the power be of God, and not from us, 
\VS{8} in everything being afflicted, but not being hard-pressed, being 
perplexed but not being utterly perplexed, 
\VS{9} being persecuted, but not 
being forsaken, being struck down but not perishing, 
\VS{10} always carrying [about] the death of Jesus in [our] bodies, 
in order that the zoe-life\fnZoe{} of Jesus be manifested in our bodies. 
\VS{11} For we the zoe-living\fnZoe{} are always being delivered up to death on Jesus account,
in order that the zoe-life\fnZoe{} of Jesus be manifested in our death-like flesh. 
\VS{12} So death works in us, but zoe-life\fnZoe{} in you. 
\VS{13} So having the same spirit of faith, according to the [thing] written, 
I believed, therefore I spoke, we also believe, we also speak, 
\VS{14} knowing that the [one] having raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and will present [us] with you. 
\VS{15} For everything is on account [of you], in order 
that the increasing grace abound, on account of the thanksgiving of many, to 
the glory of God. 
\VS{16} Therefore we do not despair, but if our outer man 
is ruined, yet our inward [man] is renewed day by day. 
\VS{17} For the immediate 
slight [thing] of affliction, beyond all measure works to us an eternal weight of 
glory, 
\VS{18} we not noticing the [things] seen, but the [things] not seen. For the 
[things] seen [are] temporary, but the [things] not seen [are] eternal.
