2 Corinthians 4:12

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So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

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  • 2 Cor 13:9 : 9 We are glad whenever we are weak but you are strong; and our prayer is that you may be fully restored.
  • 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, but we are dishonored!
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 'But I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus—to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.'
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved less?
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.
  • Phil 2:30 : 30 because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for what was lacking in your service to me.

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  • 2 Cor 4:6-11
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    6For God, who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Jesus Christ.

    7But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

    8We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;

    9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.

    10We always carry in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed in our body.

    11For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal bodies.

  • 2 Cor 1:8-10
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    8For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of the trouble we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself.

    9Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened so that we would not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

    10He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us again. On Him we have set our hope that He will continue to deliver us,

  • 2 Cor 4:13-17
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    13Since we have the same spirit of faith in accordance with what is written: 'I believed, therefore I spoke,' we also believe and therefore speak.

    14We know that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you.

    15All this is for your benefit, so that grace, having increased through the many, may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

    16Therefore, we do not lose heart. Even though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

    17For our momentary and light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.

  • Rom 8:10-13
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    10But if Christ is in you, even though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness.

    11And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who lives in you.

    12So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to it.

    13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

  • Rom 6:7-8
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    7For the one who has died has been freed from sin.

    8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.

  • 2 Cor 13:4
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    4For though He was crucified in weakness, He lives by the power of God. Likewise, we are weak in Him, but we will live with Him by God’s power for your benefit.

  • 2 Cor 3:6
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    6He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

  • Rom 14:7-8
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    7For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone.

    8If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 5:4
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    4For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

  • 2 Cor 5:14-15
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    14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.

    15And he died for all, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

  • 1 Thess 5:10
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    10He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.

  • 2 Cor 2:15-16
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    15For we are the fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

    16To one, we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is adequate for such a task?

  • 2 Tim 2:11
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    11This saying is trustworthy: If we have died with Him, we will also live with Him.

  • 2 Cor 6:9
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    9as unknown, yet well-known; as dying, yet behold, we live; as disciplined, but not put to death;

  • Rom 6:10-11
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    10For the death He died, He died to sin once for all time; but the life He lives, He lives to God.

    11So you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Rom 8:2
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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

  • Col 3:3-4
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    3For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

    4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

  • Rom 7:5
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

  • 2 Cor 4:1
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    1Therefore, since we have this ministry, just as we were shown mercy, we do not lose heart.

  • Eph 2:1
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    1And you were dead in your transgressions and sins.

  • 2 Tim 1:10
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    10and has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

  • 1 Thess 3:8
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    8For now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

  • Rom 6:4
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    4Therefore, we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

  • 1 Pet 4:6
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    6For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they may be judged according to human standards in the body but live according to God in the spirit.

  • 2 Cor 7:3
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    3I do not say this to condemn you; I have said before that you are in our hearts, to live together and to die together.

  • 1 Cor 15:22
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    22For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

  • Rom 6:2
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    2Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

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    6The mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace.

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    21For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

  • Eph 2:5
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    5made us alive together with Christ, even when we were dead in our transgressions—by grace you have been saved.