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2 Corinthians 4:12
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So then, death is at work in us, but life in you.
So then death worketh in vs, but life in you.
So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
So death is at work in us, but life in you.
So death works in us, but life in you.
So death is working in us, but life is working in you.
So physical death is [actively] at work in us, but [spiritual] life [is actively at work] in you.
So death works in us, but life in you.
So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
Thus death is at work in us but life in you.
so that death works in us, but life in you.
So death is working in us, but the result is that life is working in you.
So then death worketh in vs, & life in you.
Thus death is close to us, but life is nigh to you.
This means that death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
So then, death is at work in us, but life in you.
so that death indeed works in us, and life in you.
So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
So then, death is working in us, but life in you.
So then death works in us, but life in you.
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Now death in us worketh earnestly, but life in you.
Now therefore, in us death is active, but in you, life.
So then, death worketh in vs, but life in you.
So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
So then death works in us, but life in you.
So then death worketh in us, but life in you. Yet having the same spirit of faith,
Thus we are constantly dying, while you are in full enjoyment of Life.
Therfor deth worchith in vs, but lijf worchith in you.
So then death works in us, but life in you.
So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
So then death is working in us, but life in you.
So we live in the face of death, but this has resulted in eternal life for you.
Death is working in us because we work for the Lord, but His life is working in you.
So death is at work in us, but life in you.
So that, his death, in us, doth energise, but, his life, in you.
So then death worketh in us: but life in you.
So death is at work in us, but life in you.
So then deeth worketh in vs and lyfe in you.
so that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.
Therfore is death now mightie in vs, but life in you.
so that I suffer the influences of his death, while you only feel the effects of his life.
We go through the worst so you can have the best—eternal life.
So death works in us, but life in you.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
death: 2 Corinthians 12:15, 2 Corinthians 13:9, Acts 20:24, 1 Corinthians 4:10, Philippians 2:17, Philippians 2:30, 1 John 3:16
Cross-References
One day, Cain gave part of his harvest to the Lord ,
and Abel also gave an offering to the Lord . He killed the first-born lamb from one of his sheep and gave the Lord the best parts of it. The Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering,
"You're making me leave my home and live far from you. I will have to wander about without a home, and just anyone could kill me."
Later, Cain and his wife had a son named Enoch. At the time Cain was building a town, and so he named it Enoch after his son.
Then Enoch had a son named Irad, who had a son named Mehujael, who had a son named Methushael, who had a son named Lamech.
One day, Lamech said to his two wives, "A young man wounded me, and I killed him.
Anyone who tries to get even with me will be punished ten times more than anyone who tries to get even with Cain."
All of your hard work will be for nothing—and there will be no harvest of grain or fruit.
In the land of your enemies, you will tremble at the rustle of a leaf, as though it were a sword. And you will become so weak that you will stumble and fall over each other, even when no one is chasing you.
make his children beg for food and live in the slums.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
So then death worketh in us,.... This is the conclusion of the foregoing account, or the inference deduced from it; either the death, or dying of Christ, that is, the sufferings of his body, the church, for his sake, ενεργειται, "is wrought in us"; fulfilled and perfected in us; see Colossians 1:24 or rather a corporeal death has seized upon us; the seeds of death are in us; our flesh, our bodies are mortal, dying off apace; death has already attacked us, is working on our constitutions gradually, and unpinning our tabernacles, which in a short time will be wholly took down and laid in the dust:
but life in you. Some understand these words as spoken ironically, like those in 1 Corinthians 4:8 but the apostle seems not to be speaking in such a strain, but in the most serious manner, and about things solemn and awful; and his meaning is, ours is the sorrow, the trouble, the affliction, and death itself, yours is the gain, the joy, the pleasure, and life; what we get by preaching the Gospel are reproach, persecution, and death; but this Gospel we preach at such expense is the savour of life unto life to you, and is the means of maintaining spiritual life in your souls, and of nourishing you up unto eternal life; and which is no small encouragement to us to go on in our work with boldness and cheerfulness: or these words regard the different state and condition of the apostle, and other ministers, and of the Corinthians; the one were in adversity, and the other in prosperity.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
So then death worketh in us - We are exposed to death. The preaching of the gospel exposes us to trials which may be regarded as death working in us. Death has an energy over us (ἐνεργεῖται energeitai, is at work, is active, or operates); it is constantly employed in inflicting pains on us, and subjecting us to privation and trials. This is a strong and emphatic mode of saying that they were always exposed to death. We are called to serve and glorify the Redeemer, as it were, by repeated deaths and by constantly dying.
But life in you - You live as the effect of our being constantly exposed to death. You reap the advantage of all our exposure to trials, and of all our sufferings. You are comparatively safe; are freed from this exposure to death; and will receive eternal life as the fruit of our toils, and exposures. Life here may refer either to exemption from danger and death; or it may refer to the life of religion; the hopes of piety; the prospect of eternal salvation. To me it seems most probable that Paul means to use it in the latter sense, and that he designs to say that while he was exposed to death and called to endure constant trial, the effect would be that they would obtain, in consequence of his sufferings, the blessedness of eternal life; compare 2 Corinthians 4:15. Thus understood, this passage means, that the sufferings and self-denials of the apostles were for the good of others, and would result in their benefit and salvation; and the design of Paul here is to remind them of his sufferings in their behalf, in order to conciliate their favor and bind them more closely to him by the remembrance of his sufferings on their account.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Corinthians 4:12. Death worketh in us, c.] We apostles are in continual danger, and live a dying life while you who have received this Gospel from us are in no danger.
