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Literal Standard Version
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.
This means that death is working in us, but life is working 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
And it comes to pass at the end of days that Cain brings from the fruit of the ground a present to YHWH;
and Abel, he has brought, he also, from the female firstlings of his flock, and from their fat ones; and YHWH looks to Abel and to his present,
behold, You have driven me today from off the face of the ground, and from Your face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it has been—everyone finding me will slay me."
and Cain knows his wife, and she conceives, and bears Enoch; and he is building a city, and he calls the name of the city, according to the name of his son—Enoch.
And born to Enoch is Irad; and Irad has begotten Mehujael; and Mehujael has begotten Methusael; and Methusael has begotten Lamech.
And Lamech says to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Wives of Lamech, give ear [to] my saying: For I have slain a man for my wound, || Even a young man for my hurt;
For sevenfold is required for Cain, || And for Lamech seventy-sevenfold."
and your strength has been consumed in vain, and your land does not give her produce, and the tree of the land does not give its fruit.
And those who are left of you—I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away has pursued them, and they have fled [as in] flight from a sword—and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.
And his sons wander continually, || Indeed, they have begged, || And have sought out of their dry places.
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.
