2 Corinthians 4:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ 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

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 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.