2 Corinthians 4:11

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

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WEBBE

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

BSB

For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.

KJV

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.

ASV

For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

BBE

For, while living, we are still being given up to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our flesh, though it is under the power of death.

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ἀεὶ aei always G104 γὰρ gar for G1063 ἡμεῖς hēmeis we ourselves G3165 οἱ hoi the G3588 ζῶντες zōntes living G2198 εἰς eis to G1519 θάνατον thanaton death G2288 παραδιδόμεθα paradidometha are being delivered G3860 διὰ dia on account of G1223 Ἰησοῦν Iēsoun Jesus G2424 ἵνα ina so that G2443 καὶ kai also G2532 ἡ hē the G3588 ζωὴ zōē life G2222 τοῦ tou (the) G3588 Ἰησοῦ Iēsou of Jesus G2424 φανερωθῇ phanerōthēa may be manifested G5319 ἐν en in G1722 τῇ tēa the G3588 θνητῇ thnētēa mortal G2349 σαρκὶ sarki flesh G4561 ἡμῶν hēmōn of us G3165

The early church

"For we which live are also delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in us in our mortal flesh." For every where when he has said any thing obscure, he interprets himself again. So he has done here also, giving a clear interpretation of this which I have cited. 'For therefore, "we are delivered,"' he says, 'in other words, we bear about His dying that the power of His life may be made manifest, who permitteth not mortal flesh, though undergoing so great sufferings, to be overcome by the snowstorm of these calamities.' And it may be taken too in another way. How? As he says in another place, "If we die with him, we shall also live with Him." 'For as we endure His dying now, and choose whilst living to die for His sake: so also will he choose, when we are dead, to beget us then unto life. For if we from life come into death, He also will from death lead us by the hand into life.'
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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