2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who live are ever handed over unto death for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our mortal flesh.
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12Therefore, death is at work in us, and life is at work in you.
Cross References
Psalms 141:7Attend to my supplication. For I have been humbled exceedingly. Free me from my persecutors, for they have been fortified against me.
Romans 8:36For it is as it has been written: “For your sake, we are being put to death all day long. We are being treated like sheep for the slaughter.”
1 Corinthians 15:49And so, just as we have carried the image of what is earthly, let us also carry the image of what is heavenly.
2 Corinthians 5:4Then too, we who are in this tabernacle groan under the burden, because we do not want to be stripped, but rather to be clothed from above, so that what is mortal may be absorbed 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 →