GOD HATH SHINED IN OUR HEARTS

Cricket White Green 

Therefore seeing we have this ministry,

 as we have received mercy, we faint not;

But have renounced the hidden things 

of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, 

nor handling the word of God deceitfully;

but by manifestation of the truth commending 

ourselves to every man’s conscience in 

the sight of God. But if our gospel be hid, 

it is hid to them that are lost: In whom 

the god of this world hath blinded the minds 

of them which believe not, lest the light 

of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is 

the image of God, should shine unto them.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ 

Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your 

servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who 

commanded the light to shine out of 

darkness, hath shined in our hearts, 

to give the light of the knowledge of the 

glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthen 

vessels, that the excellency of the 

power may be of God, and not of us.

We are troubled on every side, yet not 

distressed; we are perplexed, but not 

in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; 

cast down, but not destroyed;  Always 

bearing about in the body the dying of the 

Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus 

might be made manifest in our body.

For we which live are alway delivered 

unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also 

of Jesus might be made manifest in our 

mortal flesh.  So then death worketh in us, 

but life in you.  We having the same spirit 

of faith, according as it is written, I believed, 

and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, 

and therefore speak;  Knowing that he which 

raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us 

also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

For all things are for your sakes, that the 

abundant grace might through the thanksgiving 

of many redound to the glory of God.  For 

which cause we faint not; but though our 

outward man perish, yet the inward 

man is renewed day by day.

For our light affliction, which is but for 

a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding

and eternal weight of glory; 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.

II Corinthians 4