2 Corinthians 4:11

For we who live are always being delivered over to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus might also be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

Revised King James New Testament

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 carrying about in our body the dying of Jesus, that the life of Jesus might also be made manifest in our body.

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

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Cross References

Romans 8:36As it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

1 Corinthians 15:49And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

2 Corinthians 5:4For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened: not that we would be unclothed, but rather further clothed, that mortality might be swallowed up by 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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