2 Corinthians 4:16

Though the body weakens, the inner self is daily renewed by God, so Paul does not lose heart. Outward decay is met by inward renewal.

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• Isa 40:31But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
• Col 3:10And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
• Isa 40:29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
• Rom 12:2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
• Ps 73:26My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
• 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
• Eph 3:16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
• Rom 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
• Titus 3:5Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
• Ps 27:13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
• 1 Pet 3:4But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
• Eph 4:23And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
• Job 19:26–27And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
• Isa 57:1–2The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
• Luke 11:3Give us day by day our daily bread.
• Ps 119:81My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
• 2 Cor 12:15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
• Matt 5:29–30And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

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