1. Therefore, having this service, even as we received compassion, we do not lose heart,
2. but have renounced the secret ways of shame, not walking in craftiness nor falsifying the Word of Elohim, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every human conscience, in the sight of Elohim.
3. And indeed, if our Good News has been veiled, it has been veiled in those who are perishing,
4. in whom the mighty one of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the Good News of the esteem of Messiah, who is the likeness of Elohim, does not shine on them.
5. For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Messiah יהושע the Master, and ourselves your servants for the sake of יהושע.
6. For Elohim, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts for the enlightening of the knowledge of the esteem of Elohim in the face of יהושע Messiah.
7. And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power might be of Elohim, and not of us –
8. being hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; being perplexed, but not in despair;