Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots
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2 Corinthians 4:16:
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
(NIV)
Therefore we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear). Though our outer man is [progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day after day.
(AMP)
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
(KJV)
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As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.
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Romans 2:28:
A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.
(NIV)
For he is not a [real] Jew who is only one outwardly and publicly, nor is [true] circumcision something external and physical.
(AMP)
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
(KJV)
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