2 Corinthians 4:11

For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake; that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 mortification of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies.

12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

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Cross References

Psalms 141:7I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication.

Romans 8:36(As it is written: For thy sake we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)

1 Corinthians 15:49Therefore as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear also the image of the heavenly.

2 Corinthians 5:4For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burthened; because we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that that which 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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