2 Corinthians 4:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

So then death {G3303} worketh in us, but life in you.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

2 Cor 13:9 : 9 For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: {G1161} this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
1 Cor 4:10 : 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.
1 John 3:16 : 16 Hereby {G5129} know we love, {G2316} because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Acts 20:24 : 24 But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for {G5590} your souls. If {G2532} I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
Phil 2:17 : 17 Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:
Phil 2:30 : 30 because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

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2 Cor 4:6-11
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6Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;
8[ we are] pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;
9pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;
10always bearing about in the body the dying of {G2962} Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.
11For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
2 Cor 1:8-10
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8For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell [us] in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
9yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:
10who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
2 Cor 4:13-17
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13But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed, and therefore did I speak; we also believe, and therefore also we speak;
14knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15For all things [are] for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God.
16Wherefore we faint not; but though {G2532} our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us {G2596} more and {G5236} more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
Rom 8:10-13
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10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.
11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:
13for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Rom 6:7-8
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7for he that hath died is justified from sin.
8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
2 Cor 13:4
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4for {G2532} he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you.
2 Cor 3:6
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Rom 14:7-8
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7For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself.
8For whether {G5037} we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether {G5037} we live therefore, or {G5037} die, we are the Lord's.
2 Cor 5:4
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2 Cor 5:14-15
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14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that {G1487} one died for all, therefore {G599} all died;
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1 Thess 5:10
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2 Cor 2:15-16
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15For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish;
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Rom 6:10-11
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10For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
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Rom 8:2
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Col 3:3-4
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3For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
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1 Thess 3:8
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Rom 6:4
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1 Pet 4:6
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Rom 8:6
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