2 Mga Taga-Corinto 4
4
Ang Kasalukuyang Kahinaan at ang Pagkabuhay Muli
1Dahil sa awa ng Diyos, pinili niya kami para ipahayag ang kanyang bagong pamamaraan, kaya naman hindi kami pinanghihinaan ng loob. 2Tinalikuran namin ang mga kahiya-hiya at patagong gawain. Hindi kami nanlilinlang, at hindi rin namin binabaluktot ang salita ng Diyos. Pawang katotohanan ang ipinangangaral namin. Alam ito ng Diyos, at malinis ang aming konsensiya sa harap ng tao. 3Ngunit kung may mga hindi nakakaintindi sa Magandang Balita na aming ipinapahayag, ito ay ang mga taong napapahamak. 4Ayaw nilang maniwala sa Magandang Balita dahil ang kanilang mga isipan ay binulag ni Satanas na naghahari sa mundong ito.#4:4 ni Satanas na naghahari sa mundong ito: Sa literal, ng diyos ng panahong ito. Binulag niya sila upang hindi nila maintindihan ang Magandang Balita tungkol sa kapangyarihan ni Kristo, na siyang larawan ng Diyos. 5Hindi namin ipinangangaral ang aming mga sarili kundi si Hesu-Kristo, na siyang Panginoon. Naglilingkod kami sa inyo dahil kay Hesus. 6Sapagkat ang Diyos na nagsabing, “Magkaroon ng liwanag sa kadiliman,”#4:6 Gen. 1:3. ang siya ring nagbigay-liwanag sa aming mga isipan para maunawaan namin ang kapangyarihan ng Diyos na nahayag kay Hesu-Kristo.
7Nasa amin ang kayamanang ito, ngunit tulad lang kami ng palayok na pinaglagyan nito upang maipakita ang hindi mapapantayang kapangyarihan ay mula sa Diyos, hindi sa amin. 8Ginigipit kami sa lahat ng paraan, ngunit hindi nalulupig. Nalilito kami, ngunit hindi nawawalan ng pag-asa. 9Inuusig kami, ngunit hindi kami pinapabayaan ng Diyos. Pinapabagsak kami, ngunit hindi tuluyang nalulugmok. 10Sa aming paghihirap, patuloy na nakikibahagi ang aming katawan sa kamatayan ni Hesus, upang sa pamamagitan nito ay makita rin ang buhay ni Hesus sa aming katawan. 11Sapagkat habang kamiʼy buhay pa, palagi kaming nasa bingit ng kamatayan dahil sa paglilingkod namin kay Hesus, upang sa pamamagitan ng aming katawang namamatay, makita rin ang buhay niya. 12Kaya kahit nasa bingit kami ng kamatayan, nagdudulot naman ito ng buhay para sa inyo.
13Sinasabi sa Kasulatan, “Sumampalataya ako, kaya nagsalita ako.”#4:13 Salmo 116:10. Ito ay hango sa saling Septuagint. Ganoon din ang aming ginagawa: Sumasampalataya kami, kaya nagsasalita kami. 14Sapagkat alam naming ang Diyos na muling bumuhay sa Panginoong Hesus ang siya ring bubuhay sa amin, tulad ng ginawa niya kay Hesus, at dadalhin niya tayong lahat sa kanya. 15Ang lahat ng ito ay para sa ikabubuti ninyo, upang habang dumarami ang tumatanggap sa biyaya ng Diyos ay dumarami rin ang magpapasalamat, at ito ay ikaluluwalhati niya.
16Kaya iyan ang dahilan kung bakit hindi kami pinanghihinaan ng loob. Kahit na dahan-dahang nanghihina ang aming katawan, patuloy namang lumalakas ang aming espiritu araw-araw. 17Sapagkat ang mga paghihirap na dinaranas namin sa mundong ito ay panandalian lamang. Ngunit nagdudulot ito ng kaluwalhatiang mananatili magpakailanman at hindi mapapantayan ng anuman. 18Kaya hindi nakatuon ang aming mga mata sa mga bagay na nakikita kundi sa mga bagay na hindi nakikita. Sapagkat ang mga bagay na nakikita ay panandalian lamang, ngunit ang mga bagay na hindi nakikita ay walang hanggan.
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2 Corinthians 4
4
1 THEREFORE, SINCE we do hold and engage in this ministry by the mercy of God [granting us favor, benefits, opportunities, and especially salvation], we do not get discouraged (spiritless and despondent with fear) or become faint with weariness and exhaustion.
2 We have renounced disgraceful ways (secret thoughts, feelings, desires and underhandedness, the methods and arts that men hide through shame); we refuse to deal craftily (to practice trickery and cunning) or to adulterate or handle dishonestly the Word of God, but we state the truth openly (clearly and candidly). And so we commend ourselves in the sight and presence of God to every man's conscience.
3 But even if our Gospel (the glad tidings) also be hidden (obscured and covered up with a veil that hinders the knowledge of God), it is hidden [only] to those who are perishing and obscured [only] to those who are spiritually dying and veiled [only] to those who are lost.
4 For the god of this world has blinded the unbelievers' minds [that they should not discern the truth], preventing them from seeing the illuminating light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ (the Messiah), Who is the Image and Likeness of God.
5 For what we preach is not ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves [merely] as your servants (slaves) for Jesus' sake.
6 For God Who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as [to beam forth] the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the majesty and glory of God [as it is manifest in the Person and is revealed] in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah). [Gen. 1:3.]
7 However, we possess this precious treasure [the divine Light of the Gospel] in [frail, human] vessels of earth, that the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be shown to be from God and not from ourselves.
8 We are hedged in (pressed) on every side [troubled and oppressed in every way], but not cramped or crushed; we suffer embarrassments and are perplexed and unable to find a way out, but not driven to despair;
9 We are pursued (persecuted and hard driven), but not deserted [to stand alone]; we are struck down to the ground, but never struck out and destroyed;
10 Always carrying about in the body the liability and exposure to the same putting to death that the Lord Jesus suffered, so that the [resurrection] life of Jesus also may be shown forth by and in our bodies.
11 For we who live are constantly [experiencing] being handed over to death for Jesus' sake, that the [resurrection] life of Jesus also may be evidenced through our flesh which is liable to death.
12 Thus death is actively at work in us, but [it is in order that our] life [may be actively at work] in you.
13 Yet we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, I have believed, and therefore have I spoken. We too believe, and therefore we speak, [Ps. 116:10.]
14 Assured that He Who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise us up also with Jesus and bring us [along] with you into His presence.
15 For all [these] things are [taking place] for your sake, so that the more grace (divine favor and spiritual blessing) extends to more and more people and multiplies through the many, the more thanksgiving may increase [and redound] to the glory of God.
16 Therefore we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear). Though our outer man is [progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day after day.
17 For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!],
18 Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.
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