2 Corinthians 4:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.

Cross References

Psalm 119:81

My soul languishes for your salvation; I hope in your 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 forever.

Isaiah 40:29

He gives power to the faint and strengthens the powerless.

Isaiah 40:31

but those 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! 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 age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, so that you may discern 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 brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

2 Corinthians 12:15

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

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart.

Ephesians 3:16

I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit

Ephesians 4:23

and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,

Colossians 3:10

and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator.

Titus 3:5

he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

1 Peter 3:4

rather, let your adornment be the inner self with the lasting beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God’s sight.

1 Peter 4:14

If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory, which is the Spirit of God, is resting on you.