2 Corinthians 4:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁶ So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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)

¹⁶ Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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 languishes for thy salvation; I hope in thy word.

Psalm 27:13

I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.

Psalm 73:26

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

Isaiah 40:29

He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.

Isaiah 40:31

but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

Jeremiah 45:3

You said, ‘Woe is me! for the Lord has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.’

Luke 11:3

Give us each day our daily bread;

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self,

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

2 Corinthians 12:15

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

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.

Ephesians 3:16

that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man,

Ephesians 4:23

and be renewed in the spirit of your minds,

Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

Titus 3:5

he saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit,

1 Peter 3:4

but let it be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable jewel of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

1 Peter 4:14

If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.