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  • 2 Corinthians 4:16
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 16 Therefore, we do not give up, but even if the man we are outside is wasting away, certainly the man we are inside is being renewed from day to day.

  • 2 Corinthians 4:16
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 16 Διὸ Through which οὐκ not ἐγκακοῦμεν, we are behaving badly, ἀλλ’ but εἰ if καὶ also ὁ the ἔξω outside ἡμῶν of us ἄνθρωπος man διαφθείρεται, is wasting away, ἀλλ’ but ὁ the (one) ἔσω inside ἡμῶν of us ἀνακαινοῦται is being renewed ἡμέρᾳ to day καὶ and ἡμέρᾳ. to day.

  • 2 Corinthians 4:16
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 16 Therefore we do not give up, but even if the man we are outside is wasting away, certainly the man we are inside+ is being renewed from day to day.

  • 2 Corinthians 4:16
    The Bible in Living English
    • 16* Wherefore we do not give up trying, but though our outer man be perishing our inner is renewed day by day,

  • 2 Corinthians 4:16
    American Standard Version
    • 16 Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

  • 2 Corinthians 4:16
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 16 Wherefore we faint not, But even if our outer man is decaying Nevertheless our inner [man] is renewing day by day.

  • 2 Corinthians 4:16
    King James Version
    • 16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

  • 2 Corinthians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2023
    • 4:16 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

  • 2 Corinthians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 4:16 g83 6/8 11; w74 380; w72 556; w46 120; w35 381

  • 2 Corinthians
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 4:16

      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

      6/15/1974, p. 380

      9/15/1972, p. 556

      Awake!,

      8/22/1991, p. 31

      6/8/1983, p. 11

      Reasoning, pp. 117-118

  • 2 Corinthians Study Notes—Chapter 4
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 4:16

      the man we are outside: Here Paul refers to the Christian’s physical body, which is wasting away. This physical deterioration may refer to weakness caused by disease, disabilities, and old age, as well as by mistreatment or other hardships.

      the man we are inside is being renewed: Paul highlights that even when the outer man is “wasting away,” Jehovah constantly renews, or gives fresh spiritual strength to, his servants from day to day. (Ps 92:12-14) “The man we are inside” refers to our inner spiritual nature, character, and strength. The phrase is related to “the new personality” that Christians put on. (Col 3:9, 10) Paul encourages Christians to focus their attention on “the things unseen,” God’s grand promise of a future reward.​—See study note on 2Co 4:18.

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