2 Corinthians 4:18

New International Reader's Version

So we don’t spend all our time looking at what we can see. Instead, we look at what we can’t see. That’s because what can be seen lasts only a short time. But what can’t be seen will last forever.

Cross References

Matthew 25:46

“Then they will go away to be punished forever. But those who have done what is right will receive eternal life.”

2 Corinthians 5:7

We live by believing, not by seeing.

2 Thessalonians 2:16

Our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father loved us. By his grace God gave us comfort that will last forever. The hope he gave us is good. May our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father

Hebrews 11:1

Faith is being sure of what we hope for. It is being sure of what we do not see.

Hebrews 11:13

All these people were still living by faith when they died. They didn’t receive the things God had promised. They only saw them and welcomed them from a long way off. They openly said that they were outsiders and strangers on earth.

Hebrews 9:11

But Christ came to be the high priest of the good things already here now. When he came, he went through the greater and more perfect holy tent. This tent was not made with human hands. In other words, it is not a part of this creation.

1 John 2:25

And here is what God has promised us. He has promised us eternal life.