6. Because it is the God who spoke that out of darkness light should shine who has shone in our hearts for the shining forth of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassingness of the power may be of God, and not from us:
8. every way afflicted, but not straitened; seeing no apparent issue, but our way not entirely shut up;
9. persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;
10. always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body;
11. for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh;