2 Corinthians 4:11

For we who live are continually delivered up to death for Jesus sake, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

10always bearing about in our body the violent death of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our body.

12So, then, death is active in us, but life in you.

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Cross References

Romans 8:36As it is written: For thy sake, we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

1 Corinthians 15:49And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

2 Corinthians 5:4For we who are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, not because we wish to be unclothed, but clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by 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 →

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