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...always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you. Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. -2 Corinthians 4:10-18
This
entire section of scripture speaks of the glory of God, it’s purpose in the Old
Testament and the comparison to the New Covenant in Christ sparks Paul’s use of
the adjective when speaking of the “glorious gospel” that he is responsible for
preaching. It is this that he calls a treasure that is held up within him, a
common jar of clay that has been battered and beaten. Paul impressed onto the
Corinthians the power of God being shown through weakness and that in dying
there is life eternal. He shared his own motives for pressing on and how God
had been glorified through those efforts, however the promise and the truth
that Paul closes with is by far the most impactful: With everything Paul had
been through, and all of the accusations made against him by the Corinthians,
he writes that the troubles are but light and momentary, his eyes are on the
unseen, eternal promise of a weight of glory beyond all comparison. He wrote
those words knowing their truth because the affliction he faces does not just
precede the promise of glory;
they help produce it.
