2 Corinthians 4:18 KJV — MannaFest

2 Corinthians 4:18

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

KJV

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ASV

while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

WEB

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

YLT

we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen are temporary, but the things not seen are age-during.

DBT

while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen [are] for a time, but those that are not seen eternal.

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2 Corinthians — Paul's most personal letter. A defense of gospel ministry under pressure — comfort and conflict, giving and glory, weakness and power — with the tone shifting markedly at chapter 10.

Author: Paul, with Timothy (1:1)
Date: c. AD 55–56, from Macedonia

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20 verses on the floor

Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 Corinthians 5:7
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
Romans 8:24–25
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Colossians 3:1
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Matthew 6:21
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

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Whatever the burdens and troubles of good men may be, they have cause enough not to faint. Faith kept them from fainting: We have the same spirit of faith (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

It is by faith that we see God, who is invisible ( Heb. xi. 27 ), and by this we look to an unseen heaven and hell, and faith is the evidence of things not seen.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

English Version uses "temporal" for temporary. The Greek is rightly translated in the similar passage, "the pleasures of sin for a season."

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

The things that are seen - Men, money, things of earth. The things that are not seen - God, grace, heaven.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

2CO 4:18HEB 11:1 ROM 8:24-25
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
2CO 4:18HEB 11:1 2CO 5:7
2CO 4:182CO 5:7 HEB 11:1-27
2CO 4:18HEB 11:1 HEB 11:7
2CO 4:18HEB 11:1 HEB 10:22
2CO 4:18HEB 11:1 1PE 1:7-8
2CO 4:182CO 5:7 1PE 1:8
2CO 4:182CO 5:7 HEB 10:38

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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