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;
12. so that death works in us, but life in you.
13. And having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I have believed, therefore have I spoken; we also believe, therefore also we speak;