17 For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure and proportion[a], 18 because[b] we are not looking at what is seen, but what is not seen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is not seen is eternal.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 4:17 Literally “according to an extraordinary degree to an extraordinary degree”
  2. 2 Corinthians 4:18 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the causal genitive absolute participle (“looking at”)