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So We Don’t Lose Heart In This Ministry Or Its Reception; God Is Shining Through Us

For this reason, having this ministry even-as[a] we received-mercy, we do not lose-heart. But we renounced the hidden things of [b] shame, not walking in craftiness[c], nor handling-deceitfully[d] the word of God, but by the open-disclosure of the truth, commending[e] ourselves to every conscience of mankind[f] in the sight of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 4:1 That is, as a gift of His grace.
  2. 2 Corinthians 4:2 That is, proceeding from shameful motives; or, resulting in shame when they become known. It is failure to attain hidden self-focused motives that causes us to lose heart.
  3. 2 Corinthians 4:2 Or, trickery. That is, using any means to gain our end.
  4. 2 Corinthians 4:2 Or, adulterating, distorting, falsifying.
  5. 2 Corinthians 4:2 Or, presenting.
  6. 2 Corinthians 4:2 That is, every individual conscience of all people with whom we come in contact.

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