2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who live are always given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh.
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12So death indeed works in us, but life in you.
Cross References
Psalms 141:7Like plowing and furrowing the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Romans 8:36Just as it is written, For thy sake we are killed the whole day long. We are considered as sheep of slaughter.
1 Corinthians 15:49And just as we have worn the form of the earthly, we will also wear the form of the heavenly.
2 Corinthians 5:4For also those who are in the tent groan, being burdened, not in that we want to undress, but to clothe ourselves, so that the mortal may be swallowed up by the life.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 4:9-18
The Apostles' Sufferings and Supports. ( a. d. 57.) 8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in… Read the whole commentary →