2 Corinthians 4:12

King James Version 1611 (Original)

So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

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  • 2 Cor 13:9 : 9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
  • 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 are honourable, but we are despised.
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 Yea, and if I be 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 was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

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    6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath 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 excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

    8We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

    9Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

    10Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

    11For 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.

  • 2 Cor 1:8-10
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    8For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

    9But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

    10Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

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    13We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;

    14Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

    15For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

    16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

    17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

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    12Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

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    7For he that is dead is freed from sin.

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    7For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

    8For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

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    14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

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  • 10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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    15For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

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  • 10But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

  • 8For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

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  • 6For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

  • 3I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

  • 22For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

  • 2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

  • 6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

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

  • 5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)