2 Corinthians 4:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

We don’t focus on the things that can be seen but on the things that can’t be seen. The things that can be seen don’t last, but the things that can’t be seen are eternal.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And we are contemplating, not the things that are seen, but the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are temporal, whereas the things that are not seen are eternal.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

2 Corinthians 4:18 Cross References

Matthew 25:46

And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.

2 Corinthians 5:7

(for we walk by faith, not by sight);

2 Thessalonians 2:16

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father which loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the proving of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Hebrews 9:11

But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

1 John 2:25

And this is the promise which he promised us, even the life eternal.