7 Now we have this otzar (treasure) in earthen vessels*4:7 2C 5:1 that the excellence of the ko’ach may be of Hashem and not of us.*4:7 Job 4:19; Isa 64:8; Judg 7:2 8 Being oppressed on every side*4:8 2C 1:8; 7:5 but not being crushed, being perplexed but not in ye’ush (despair, atzvut), 9 Being persecuted but not forsaken, being cast down but not destroyed,*4:9 Ps 37:24; Prov 24:16 10 Always bearing about the dying of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in my basar that also the Chayyim of Moshiach in geviyyateinu might be manifested.*4:10 Gn 47:18; Ps 16:9-10; Job 19:25-27; Isa 53:11 11 For always we, the ones living, are being given over to mavet because of Moshiach*4:11 Ro 8:36; 1C 15:31 that also the Chayyim of Moshiach may be manifested in our mortal basar.