2 Corinthians 4:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Therefore we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear). Though our outer man is [progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day after day.

American Standard Version (1901)

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Common English Bible

So we aren’t depressed. But even if our bodies are breaking down on the outside, the person that we are on the inside is being renewed every day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For this reason, we are not insufficient. But it is as though our outer man is corrupted, while our inner man is renewed from day to day.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man is corrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

2 Corinthians 4:16 Cross References

Psalm 119:81

My soul fainteth for thy salvation: But I hope in thy word.

Psalm 27:13

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.

Psalm 73:26

My flesh and my heart faileth: But God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

Isaiah 40:29

He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.

Isaiah 40:31

but they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

Jeremiah 45:3

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.

Luke 11:3

Give us day by day our daily bread.

Romans 12:2

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

1 Corinthians 15:58

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 12:15

And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not:

Ephesians 3:16

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;

Ephesians 4:23

and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him:

Titus 3:5

not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost,

1 Peter 3:4

but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

1 Peter 4:14

If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are ye; because the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you.