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2 Corinthians 4:17
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2 Corinthians 4:17
17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
17For our light affliction, which is but for a momēt, worketh for vs a farre more exceeding and eternall waight of glory,
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2 Corinthians 4:17
Visible brightness; something that gives illumination; not heavy; to kindle, illuminate, or come down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Only; no more than what follows.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A very short time; also weight or importance.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604
Works; acts, labours, produces, accomplishes, or operates.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A greater amount, number, or degree; in a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Going beyond; surpassing; excelling; outdoing. O glorious trial of exceeding love.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Heaviness or a measured load; figuratively, a burden, importance, influence, force, or consequence.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Splendour, honour, praise, majesty, or a ground of rejoicing or boasting.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
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Open the full verse study10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
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Open the full verse study3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
4And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
5And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
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Open the full verse study12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
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Open the full verse study10For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
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Open the full verse study3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
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Open the full verse study6Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
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Open the full verse study18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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Open the full verse study37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
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Open the full verse study7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
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Open the full verse study23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
24Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
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Open the full verse study9But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
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Open the full verse study24Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
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Open the full verse study19For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
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Open the full verse study7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
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Open the full verse study34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
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Open the full verse study8In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
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Open the full verse study67Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
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Open the full verse study71It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
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Open the full verse study5For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
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Open the full verse study23Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
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Open the full verse study1AFTER these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
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Open the full verse study4For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
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Open the full verse study24Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
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Open the full verse study12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
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Open the full verse study19Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
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Open the full verse study2Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
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Open the full verse study4So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
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Open the full verse study6Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
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Open the full verse study23Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
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