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2 Corinthians 4:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

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But as for you, brothers and sisters, do not grow weary  in doing good.


Let us not get tired  of doing good,  for we shall reap at the proper time if we don’t give up.


So, then, I ask you not to be discouraged  over my afflictions on your behalf, for they are your glory.


I am able to do all things through him  who strengthens me.


Therefore we do not give up.  Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person  is being renewed day by day.


I know that you have persevered and endured hardships for the sake of my name,   and you have not grown weary.


For consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself, so that you won’t grow weary and give up.


He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant,  not of the letter,  but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.


Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy,  but now you have received mercy.


even though I was formerly a blasphemer,  a persecutor,  and an arrogant man.  But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief,


Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.


Since, then, we have such a hope,  we act with great boldness.


Now about virgins:  I have no command from the Lord, but I do give an opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy  is faithful.


Youths may become faint and weary, and young men stumble and fall,


but those who trust in the  Lord will renew their strength; they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not become weary, they will walk and not faint.


“You have said, ‘Woe is me, because the Lord has added misery to my pain! I am worn out with  groaning and have found no rest.’ ”


Now he told them a parable on the need for them to pray  always and not give up.


What then is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given.





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