2 Corinthians 4:10

always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

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WEBBE

always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

BSB

We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

KJV

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.

ASV

always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

BBE

In our bodies there is ever the mark of the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our bodies.

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The early church

"Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body." And what is the "dying of the Lord Jesus," which they bare about? Their daily deaths by which also the resurrection was showed. 'For if any believe not,' he says, 'that Jesus died and rose again, beholding us every day die and rise again, let him believe henceforward in the resurrection.' Seest thou how he has discovered yet another reason for the trials? What then is this reason? "That his life also may be manifested in our body." He says, 'by snatching us out of the perils. So that this which seems a mark of weakness and destititution, this, [I say,] proclaims His resurrection. For His power had not so appeared in our suffering no unpleasantness, as it is now shown in our suffering indeed, but without being overcome.'
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on 2 Corinthians

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 8–12

The apostles were great sufferers, yet they met with wonderful support. Believers may be forsaken of their friends, as well as persecuted by enemies; but their God will never leave them nor forsake them. There may be fears within, as well as fightings without; yet we are not destroyed. The apostle speaks of their sufferings as a counterpart of the sufferings of Christ, that people might see the power of Christ's resurrection, and of grace in and from the living Jesus. In comparison with them, other Christians were, even at that time, in prosperous circumstances.

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