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Therefore, having this service, just as we received mercy, we do not lose heart.
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Rather, we renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor corrupting the Word of Elohim, but through manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of Adam before Elohim.
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But even if our Besorah is veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing,
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among whom the elohim of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the illumination of the Besorah of the glory of the Anointed, who is image of Elohim, might not shine upon them.
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For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Yahushua the Anointed as Master, and ourselves as your servants because of Yahushua.
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For the Elohim who said: “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who shone in our hearts for illumination of the knowledge of the glory of Elohim in the face of Yahushua the Anointed.
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But we have this treasure in vessels of clay, so that the surpassing greatness of the power may be from Elohim and not from us.
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In every way we are afflicted, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;
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persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed;
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always carrying in the body the dying of Yahushua, so that the life of Yahushua may also be manifested in our body.
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For we who live are always being handed over to death because of Yahushua, so that the life of Yahushua may also be manifested in our mortal flesh.
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Therefore death works in us, but life in you.
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But having the same ruach of trust, according to what is written: “I trusted, therefore I spoke,” we also trust, and therefore we speak,
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knowing that the One who raised the Master Yahushua shall also raise us with Yahushua and present us with you.
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For all things are for your sake, so that grace, having increased through the many, may cause thanksgiving to overflow toward the glory of Elohim.
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Therefore we do not lose heart. But even if our outer Adam is wasting away, our inner Adam is being renewed day by day.
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For our light momentary affliction is producing for us an everlasting weight of glory beyond all measure,
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while we look not toward the things seen, but toward the things not seen. For the things seen are temporary, but the things not seen are everlasting.