2 Corinthians 4:11

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

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  • Rom 8:36 : 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
  • Ps 44:22 : 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
  • 2 Cor 5:4 : 4 For we that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
  • Ps 141:7 : 7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.
  • Rom 8:11 : 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
  • 1 Cor 15:31 : 31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
  • 1 Cor 15:49 : 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
  • 1 Cor 15:53-54 : 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

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    7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

    8¶ [We 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.

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    12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

    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;

    18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.

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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:

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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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    13For whether we be beside ourselves, [it is] to God: or whether we be sober, [it is] for your cause.

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

    15And [that] he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

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  • 9As unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

  • 36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

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    30And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?

    31I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

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    9For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

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    6Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

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  • 11Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

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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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  • 22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

  • 4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.