2 Corinthians 4:15

For everything is for your sakes, so that more abundant grace, because of the thanksgiving of many voices, might overflow to the glory of God.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

In Context

14For I know that He who raised from the dead the Lord Jesus, will raise me also with Jesus, and set me at your side in his presence.

16For this reason, as I have said, I do not lose courage, but even though my outward man is wasting away, my inward man is being renewed, day by day.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 3:21So let no one make boast in men. For all things are yours;

2 Corinthians 1:11while all of you also are helping me by your prayers; so that from many lips thanksgiving may rise on my behalf for the blessings vouchsafed to me through the intercessions of many.

2 Corinthians 9:11You yourselves will be enriched with all good things, that you may give ungrudgingly; and your gifts, of which I am the agent, will make men give thanks to God.

Ephesians 3:20Now unto him who, according to his might that is at work within us, is able to do infinitely more than all we ask or even think,

Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ have its home in you richly, in all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, ever singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

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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