17 For our [a]light affliction which is but for a moment, causeth unto us a far most excellent and an eternal weight of [b]glory:

18 While we look not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen for the things which are seen, are temporal: but the things which are not seen, are eternal.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 4:17 Afflictions are not called light, as though they were light of themselves, but because they pass away quickly, when as indeed our whole life is of no long continuance.
  2. 2 Corinthians 4:17 Which remaineth forever firm and stable, and can never be shaken.

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