1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we do not lose heart: 2but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 3And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish: 4in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Messiah, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them. 5For we do not preach ourselves, but Messiah Yeshua as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Yeshua’s sake. 6Seeing it is God, who said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Yeshua Messiah. 7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves; 8we are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; 9pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed; 10always carrying about in the body the dying of Yeshua, that the life also of Yeshua may be manifested in our body. 11For we who live are always delivered to death for Yeshua’s sake, that the life also of Yeshua may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12So then death works in us, but life in you. 13But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed, and therefore I spoke; we also believe, and therefore also we speak; 14knowing that he who raised up the Lord Yeshua shall raise us up also with Yeshua, and shall present us with you. 15For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God. 16Therefore we do not lose heart; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. 17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; 18while we do not look 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.