1. Therefore, since we have this ministry because we were shown mercy, we do not give up.
2. Instead, we have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God’s message, but commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in God’s sight by an open display of the truth.
3. But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
4. In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.