2 Corinthians 4:11

For we while living are always being delivered up to death for the sake of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 the dying of Jesus in our body, in order that the life of Jesus may also be made manifest in our bodies.

12So that death works in us, but life in you.

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Cross References

Romans 8:36As has been written, that We are killed all day for thy sake; we are counted as sheep of the slaughter.

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

2 Corinthians 5:4For indeed being in this tabernacle we groan, being burdened; not that we wish to be divested, but invested, that mortality may be swallowed up of 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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