We Faint Not: Eternal Strength and Hope from 2 Corinthians 4:8-18
In these challenging days, when faithful conservative Christians often feel “troubled on every side,” the inspired words of the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 4:8-18 shine like a beacon of hope. Cultural opposition to biblical truth, moral confusion, personal trials, and spiritual warfare can press hard against us. Yet Paul, who endured beatings, imprisonments, and constant danger for the gospel, declares that we are afflicted but not crushed, perplexed but not in despair, persecuted but not forsaken, cast down but not destroyed. Here is the full passage in the King James Version: > 2 Corinthians 4:8-18 (KJV) > We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; > Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; > Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. > For we which live are alway delivered ...