4:13 But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in
accordance with scripture--'I believed, and so I spoke' --we also
believe, and so we speak,
4:14 because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will
raise us also with Jesus, and will bring us with you into his
presence.
4:15 Yes, everything is for your sake, so that grace, as it extends
to more and more people, may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of
God.
4:16 So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is
wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.
4:17 For this slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an
eternal weight of glory beyond all measure,
4:18 because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be
seen; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is
eternal.
5:1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we
have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in
the heavens.
