2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
12So that death works in us, but life in you.
Cross References
Romans 8:36As it is written: For, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for slaughter.
1 Corinthians 15:49And as we bore the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
2 Corinthians 5:4For we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; in that we do not desire to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon, that what is mortal might 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 →