2 Corinthians 4:12

So while death is working in me, life is working in you.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11For, alive though I am, I am always given over to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may shine forth in my dying flesh.

13But having the same spirit of faith of which it is written, I believed, and therefore have spoken, I also believe and so I speak.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:10For Christ’s sake we are fools, but you are quite philosophic in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are outcast.

2 Corinthians 13:9For I am always glad whenever I am weak, but you are strong. For this also I am praying, for your perfect reformation.

Philippians 2:30for it was through the work of the Lord that he came near to death; for he hazarded his very life to supply what was lacking in the help you sent me.

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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