2 Corinthians 4:16

2 Corinthians 4:16 to 2 Corinthians 5:10 The Preachers of the Gospel are sustained by the hope of a Future Life

16. For which cause we faint not The Apostle now returns to the topic he has already introduced (2 Corinthians 4:1). But the digression, if indeed it be a digression, only tends to strengthen the assertion he has made. -We faint not," he says, -not merely because we have a glorious ministry (2 Corinthians 4:1), not merely because we have the knowledge of God (2 Corinthians 4:6), not merely because, though oppressed and afflicted ourselves, we see the blessed results of our ministry in others, but because (cf. 2 Corinthians 4:10) our sorrows and sufferings, the decay of our mortal body, are but external. There is a spring of life within that can never fail, the new life, which comes to us from God through Christ."