2 Corinthians 4:15

For all things are for your sakes, that while grace aboundeth by means of many, thanksgiving may abound to the glory of God.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

14knowing that he, who resuscitated our Lord Jesus, will also resuscitate us by Jesus, and will receive us, with you, to himself.

16For this cause we faint not; for though our outward man perish, yet the inner man is renovated day by day.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 3:21Wherefore, let no one glory in men: for all things are yours;

2 Corinthians 1:11by the aid of your prayers in our behalf; so that his gift to us may be a favor done for the sake of many, and many may praise him on our account.

2 Corinthians 9:11so that in every thing, ye may be enriched unto all liberality, to the completion of our thanksgiving to God.

Ephesians 3:20Now to him who is able, by his almighty power, to do for us even more than we ask or think, according to his power that worketh in us;

Colossians 3:16And let his word dwell in you richly, in all wisdom. And teach and admonish yourselves, by psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, and with grace in your hearts sing ye 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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