2 Corinthians 4:1-11

1Therefore, since we have this ministry because we were shown mercy, we do not give up.

2Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful things, not acting deceitfully or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by an open display of the truth.

3But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

4In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

5For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’s sake.

6For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.

7Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us.

8We are afflicted in every way but not crushed; we are perplexed but not in despair;

9we are persecuted but not abandoned; we are struck down but not destroyed.

10We always carry the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed in our body.

11For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’s sake, so that Jesus’s life may also be displayed in our mortal flesh.