2 Corinthians 4:11
For we, who are yet living, are always exposed to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
12So that death is wrought in us, but life in you.
Cross References
Romans 8:36(as it is written, "for thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter:")
1 Corinthians 15:49And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
2 Corinthians 5:4For we who are in this tabernacle do groan, being burthened; wherefore we desire, not to be wholly unclothed, but to put on immortality, that the mortal part may be swallowed up in 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 →