16 For this cause we do not faint; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward [man] is being renewed day by day.
17 For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory,
18 we not considering the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen; for the things which [are] seen [are] not lasting, but the things which [are] not seen [are] everlasting.