2 Corinthians 4:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸While 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.

2 Corinthians 4:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 5:7
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
Romans 8:24-25
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? …
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
1 John 2:16-17
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. …
1 John 2:25
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-18)

In these verses the apostle gives an account of their courage and patience under all their sufferings, where observe, I. How their sufferings, and patience under them, are declared, 2 Cor. 4:8-12. The apostles were great sufferers; therein they followed their Master: Christ had told them that in the world they should have tribulation, and so they had; yet they met with wonderful support, great rel…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. look not at--as our aim. things ... seen--“earthly things” (Php 3:19). We mind not the things seen, whether affliction or refreshment come, so as to be seduced by the latter, or deterred by the former [Chrysostom]. things ... not seen--not “the invisible things” of Ro 1:20, but the things which, though not seen now, shall be so hereafter. temporal--rather, “for a time”; in contrast to eternal.…