Bible verse
For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal glory that is far beyond comparison.
2 Corinthians 4:17 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Corinthians 4.
13 And in keeping with what is written: “I believed, therefore I have spoken,” we who have the same spirit of faith also believe and therefore speak,
14 knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in His presence.
15 All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is extending to more and more people may overflow in thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
17 For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal glory that is far beyond comparison.
18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
KJV
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;
ASV
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
ERV
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
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