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2 Corinthians 4:1

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    4:1 Lit. having this service as mercy was

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    8/15/2005, pp. 14-15

    7/15/1990, p. 18

  • Publications Index

    w05 8/15 15; w90 7/15 18;

    w84 8/15 10-11; w55 660; w51 689; w44 137, 326; w34 163; jh 235

2 Corinthians 4:2

Footnotes

  • *

    4:2 Lit. the hidden things of

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    8/15/2005, pp. 14-15

    10/1/1997, pp. 18-20

    5/1/1997, pp. 6-7

    7/15/1990, p. 18

    Ministry School, p. 153

  • Publications Index

    w05 8/15 15; be 153; w97 5/1 6-7; w97 10/1 18-20; w90 7/15 18;

    w81 2/15 27; w76 303; w73 471-472; w72 565-566; w72 598-599; qm 11; w63 149; w55 660; w51 689; w44 137

2 Corinthians 4:3

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    8/15/2005, pp. 21-22

    7/15/1990, pp. 18-19

  • Publications Index

    w05 8/15 21-22; w90 7/15 18;

    hs 50-51; w75 658-659; w65 492; w51 621; w44 138; ci 158

2 Corinthians 4:4

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 973

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 1055-1056, 1209-1210

    Awake!,

    4/22/2005, p. 9

    The Watchtower,

    11/1/1990, pp. 13-15

    7/15/1990, pp. 16-17, 18-19

  • Publications Index

    it-1 973; it-2 1056, 1209; g05 4/22 9; w90 7/15 16, 18; w90 11/1 13-15;

    w85 1/15 14; w81 7/15 31; hp 127; hs 50-51; w75 658-659; w74 560-561; w74 755; g74 10/22 8-9; w73 344; g73 4/22 19; w72 600, 629-630, 653-654, 754; dn 26-27; g71 5/22 5; w69 530; w68 136, 653, 711; qm 164; g66 9/8 27; w65 247, 492; w64 74, 426, 579; g64 11/22 27; w63 294, 718; bf 568; w62 71, 519, 601, 729; wr 58; g62 3/22 27; g62 7/8 15; g62 10/8 20; w61 525, 616; nu 11; w60 45; w57 159; w55 445; sr55 20; nh 208; w52 694; w51 301, 458; w49 314; w44 138; ki 331; tf 230; w41 148; ci 158; v-2 9; g32 2/3 281; w31 78

2 Corinthians 4:5

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    7/15/1990, pp. 18-19

  • Publications Index

    w90 7/15 18;

    w44 138; w34 163

2 Corinthians 4:6

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/2004, p. 17

    3/1/2002, p. 8

    7/15/1990, pp. 16-17, 18-19

  • Publications Index

    w04 3/15 17; w02 3/1 8; w90 7/15 16-19;

    w67 274; w65 247; w64 406; w57 549; w42 3; w34 163; jh 236

2 Corinthians 4:7

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    4:7 Lit. the surpassingness of power

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 1154

    The Watchtower (Study),

    6/2017, pp. 10-11

    Return to Jehovah, p. 6

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/2012, pp. 28-29

    7/1/2000, p. 18

    3/15/1999, p. 11

    2/1/1999, p. 14

    2/1/1992, p. 32

    7/15/1990, pp. 15-16, 19

    Kingdom Ministry,

    2/2007, p. 1

    1/1998, p. 1

  • Publications Index

    w24.04 16; w24.07 19; it-2 1154; w17.06 10-11; rj 6; w12 2/1 28-29; km 2/07 1; w00 7/1 18; w99 2/1 14; w99 3/15 11; km 1/98 1; w92 2/1 32; w90 7/15 15, 19;

    w84 5/15 15; w78 5/1 23; ad 1635; w64 406; w62 215; w58 521; w50 56; w47 198; w44 139; w42 220; w35 254; w34 163; jh 236

2 Corinthians 4:8

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w75 518; w62 182

2 Corinthians 4:9

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/1990, p. 5

  • Publications Index

    w90 3/1 5;

    w75 518

2 Corinthians 4:12

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    7/15/1990, pp. 19-20

  • Publications Index

    w90 7/15 19-20;

    ka 402; w58 522

2 Corinthians 4:13

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w75 304; w74 184; ka 402-403; w65 45

2 Corinthians 4:14

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    4:14 Var. raised the Lord Jesus

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    ka 402-403

2 Corinthians 4:15

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w71 351

2 Corinthians 4:16

Footnotes

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    4:16 Var. Which is why it is that we do not

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook,

    5/2019, p. 2

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 305

    The Watchtower,

    7/15/2008, p. 28

    8/15/2004, p. 25

    5/15/1996, p. 32

    Awake!,

    8/22/1991, p. 31

    Reasoning, pp. 117-118

  • Publications Index

    mwb19.05 2; it-2 305; w08 7/15 28; w04 8/15 25; w96 5/15 32; g91 8/22 31; rs 117-118;

    g83 6/8 11; w74 380; w72 556; w46 120; w35 381

2 Corinthians 4:17

Footnotes

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    4:17 Lit. eternal weight of glory

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 724-725

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1996, pp. 27-28

  • Publications Index

    it-1 724-725; w96 2/15 27-28;

    w74 380; w46 120

2 Corinthians 4:18

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower (Study),

    5/2020, pp. 26-31

    Pure Worship, p. 36

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1996, pp. 27-29

  • Publications Index

    w20.05 26-31; rr 36; w96 2/15 27-29;

    w80 9/15 20; yb78 5; w77 639; g69 1/8 28; w52 548; w46 120

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2 Corinthians 4:1-18

2 Corinthians

4* For this reason, having this service to perform as mercy was granted to us, we do not give up trying, 2* but have renounced the concealments of shame, not walking in trickery nor adulterating God’s word, but by giving publicity to the truth commending ourselves to every human conscience before God. 3 And if our gospel be veiled, it is veiled in the case of those who are being lost, 4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded unbelievers’ senses so that they should not eye the refulgence of the gospel of the glory of the Christ, who is image of God. 5 For we are not preaching ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves servants to you on Jesus’s account, 6 because it was God, he who said “Light shall shine out of darkness,” that shone in our hearts to produce the refulgence of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Christ.

7* But we have this treasure in earthen jars, in order that the surpassing power may be God’s and not out of us: 8 every way hard pressed but not cornered, perplexed but not baffled, 9 persecuted but not deserted, felled but not ended, 10 always carrying about in our body Jesus’s deadness in order that Jesus’s life too may be made visible in our body. 11 For we who are alive are all the time being sent to death on Jesus’s account, in order that Jesus’s life too may be made visible in our mortal flesh, 12 so that death is at work in us but life in you.

13 And, having the same spirit of faith, in accordance with the written words “I believed, for that reason I spoke,” we too believe and it is for that reason we speak, 14* knowing that he who raised Jesus will raise us too with Jesus and present us together with you. 15 For everything is on your account, in order that the grace, growing vaster by the greater number, may make thanksgiving the more abundant to the glory of God. 16* Wherefore we do not give up trying, but though our outer man be perishing our inner is renewed day by day, 17* for the light pressure of our present distress is producing for us in unparalleled richness an unequaled weight of eternal glory; 18 while we look not to the seen but to the unseen, for what is seen is temporary but what is unseen is eternal.

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