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2 Corinthians 4:2 (NIV)
Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 4:3 (NIV)
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
2 Corinthians 4:5 (NIV)
For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
2 Corinthians 4:7 (NIV)
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
2 Corinthians 4:8 (NIV)
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
2 Corinthians 4:9 (NIV)
persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
2 Corinthians 4:10 (NIV)
We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
2 Corinthians 4:14 (NIV)
because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself.
2 Corinthians 4:15 (NIV)
All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 4:16 (NIV)
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:17 (NIV)
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
2 Kings 4:1 (NIV)
The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord . But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”
2 Kings 4:2 (NIV)
Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?” “Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”
2 Kings 4:3 (NIV)
Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few.
2 Kings 4:4 (NIV)
Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.”
2 Kings 4:5 (NIV)
She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring.
2 Kings 4:6 (NIV)
When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.” But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
2 Kings 4:7 (NIV)
She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”
2 Kings 4:8 (NIV)
One day Elisha went to Shunem. And a well-to-do woman was there, who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever he came by, he stopped there to eat.
2 Kings 4:9 (NIV)
She said to her husband, “I know that this man who often comes our way is a holy man of God.
2 Kings 4:10 (NIV)
Let’s make a small room on the roof and put in it a bed and a table, a chair and a lamp for him. Then he can stay there whenever he comes to us.”
2 Kings 4:11 (NIV)
One day when Elisha came, he went up to his room and lay down there.
2 Kings 4:12 (NIV)
He said to his servant Gehazi, “Call the Shunammite.” So he called her, and she stood before him.
2 Kings 4:13 (NIV)
Elisha said to him, “Tell her, ‘You have gone to all this trouble for us. Now what can be done for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’ ” She replied, “I have a home among my own people.”
2 Kings 4:14 (NIV)
“What can be done for her?” Elisha asked. Gehazi said, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”