2 Corinthians 4:11 “For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so…”

2 Corinthians 4:11

For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

American Standard Version

For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Geneva Bible 1599

For we which liue, are alwaies deliuered vnto death for Iesus sake, that the life also of Iesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

Darby Translation

for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh;

Young's Literal Translation

for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,

Bible in Basic English

For, while living, we are still being given up to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our flesh, though it is under the power of death.

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Cross references

“are alway”

1 Corinthians 15:49 Psalm 44:22 Romans 8:36 1 Corinthians 15:31 Psalm 141:7

1 Corinthians 15:49 · BSB

And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.

Psalm 44:22 · BSB

Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Romans 8:36 · BSB

As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

1 Corinthians 15:31 · BSB

I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalm 141:7 · BSB

As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

“our”

2 Corinthians 5:4 Romans 8:11 1 Corinthians 15:53 1 Corinthians 15:54

2 Corinthians 5:4 · BSB

For while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.

Romans 8:11 · BSB

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

1 Corinthians 15:53 · BSB

For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

1 Corinthians 15:54 · BSB

When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

12So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

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