2 Korintus 4:16--5:1

4:16 Therefore we do not despair, ¹  but even if our physical body ²  is wearing away, our inner person ³  is being renewed day by day. 4:17 For our momentary, light suffering ⁴  is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison 4:18 because we are not looking 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.

Living by Faith, Not by Sight

5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, ⁵  is dismantled, ⁶  we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

[4:16]  ¹ tn Or “do not lose heart.”

[4:16]  ² tn Grk “our outer man.”

[4:16]  ³ tn Grk “our inner [man].”

[4:17]  ⁴ tn Grk “momentary lightness of affliction.”

[5:1]  ⁵ sn The expression the tent we live in refers to “our earthly house, our body.” Paul uses the metaphor of the physical body as a house or tent, the residence of the immaterial part of a person.

[5:1]  ⁶ tn Or “destroyed.”