2 Corinthians 4:9

we are persecuted, but not forsaken; we are prostrated, but perish not.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

In Context

8And in every thing we are oppressed, but not suffocated; we are corrected, but not condemned;

10For we bear in our body, at all times, the dying of Jesus; that the life also of Jesus might be manifested in our body.

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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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