2 Corinthians 4:12

Thus we are constantly dying, while you are in full enjoyment of Life.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11For we, alive though we are, are continually surrendering ourselves to death for the sake of Jesus, so that in this mortal nature of ours it may also be clearly shown that Jesus lives.

13But possessing the same Spirit of faith as he who wrote, "I believed, and therefore I have spoken," we also believe, and therefore we speak.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:10We, for Christ's sake, are labeled as "foolish"; you, as Christians, are men of shrewd intelligence. We are mere weaklings: you are strong. You are in high repute: we are outcasts.

2 Corinthians 13:9and it is a joy to us when we are powerless, but you are strong. This we also pray for--the perfecting of your characters.

Philippians 2:30because it was for the sake of Christ's work that he came so near death, hazarding, as he did, his very life in endeavouring to make good any deficiency that there might be in your gifts to 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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