2Co 4:18
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at 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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(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. {substance: or, ground, or, confidence}
For all that {is} in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, {even} eternal life.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of {them}, and embraced {them}, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. {in faith: Gr. according to faith}
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of {our} faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. {author: or, beginner}
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given {us} everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. {substance: or, ground, or, confidence}
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: {conversation...: or, we live or conduct ourselves as citizens of heaven, or, for obtaining heaven}
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see {him} not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. {Labour not: or, Work not}
Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off. {that...: Heb. of far distances}