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.

Cross-references · 20

• Isa 40:31But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
• Col 3:10and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
• Isa 40:29He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
• Rom 12:2Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
• Ps 73:26My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
• 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
• Eph 3:16that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
• Rom 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
• Titus 3:5not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
• Ps 27:13I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
• 1 Pet 3:4but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.
• Eph 4:23and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
• Job 19:26–27After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,
• Isa 57:1–2The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
• Luke 11:3Give us day by day our daily bread.
• Ps 119:81My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
• 2 Cor 12:15I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
• Matt 5:29–30If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

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