4 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

¹⁶ For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

5 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.