2 Corinthians 4:11

For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.

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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

10We always carry around in our body the death of the Lord Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

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

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Cross References

Psalms 141:7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Romans 8:36As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

1 Corinthians 15:49And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also let us bear the likeness of the heavenly man.

2 Corinthians 5:4For while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality 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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