4: 2 but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
4: 3 And even if our 37gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that 38perish:
37See marginal note on ch. 2:12. (Also for vs. 4.)
38Or, are perishing:
4: 4 in whom the god of this 39world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, 40that the 41light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn.
39Gk. age (αιων, eon).
40Or, that they should not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
41Gk. illumination and in vs. 6.
4: 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your 42servants 43for Jesus’ sake.
42Gk. bondservants Compare 1Co 9:19.
43So BA*vid 81 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss. But p46ℵC 1739 33 0243 copsa,bo vg read through Jesus. ℵa arm read through Christ.
4: 6 Seeing it is God, that said, 44Light shall 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 Jesus Christ.
44Ge 1:3.
4: 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;
4: 8 we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;
4: 9 pursued, yet not 45forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;
45Or, left behind;
4: 10 always bearing about in the body the 46dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.
46Gk. putting to death
4: 11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
4: 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
4: 13 But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, 47I believed, and therefore did I speak; we also believe, and therefore also we speak;
47Ps 116:10.
4: 14 knowing that he that raised up 48the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you.
48So ℵC 81 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., copbo. p46B (1739 33 0243) copsa arm vg omit the Lord
4: 15 For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through 49the majority, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God.
49Gk. the more,
4: 16 Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
4: 17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
4: 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.
