6. For God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” is the one who has shined in our hearts for the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
7. But we have this treasure in earthenware jars, in order that the extraordinary degree of the power may be from God and not from us.
8. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;
9. persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed;
10. always carrying around the death of Jesus in our body, in order that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
11. For we who are alive are continually being handed over to death because of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.