11 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. Ver. 11. For we which live, &c. ] Good men only are heirs of the grace of life, 1 Peter 3:7 . Others are living ghosts and walking sepulchres of themselves. read more
are alway: Psalms 44:22, Psalms 141:7, Romans 8:36, 1 Corinthians 15:31, 1 Corinthians 15:49 our: 2 Corinthians 5:4, Romans 8:11, 1 Corinthians 15:53, 1 Corinthians 15:54 Reciprocal: Matthew 5:11 - for Matthew 10:22 - for Luke 21:17 - for Romans 5:10 - we shall Romans 6:12 - mortal Romans 8:10 - the body Romans 15:30 - for the 2 Corinthians 1:5 - as 2 Corinthians 6:9 - behold 2 Corinthians 11:23 - in deaths 2 Corinthians 12:10 - for Christ's Galatians 2:20 - but read more
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.For we who yet live - Who are not yet killed for the testimony of Jesus.Are always delivered unto death — Are perpetually in the very jaws of destruction; which we willingly submit to, that we may "obtain a better resurrection." read more
2. Antithesis of apostolic trials and triumphs resulting in glory, | 2 Corinthians 2 Corinthians 4:7 to 2 Corinthians 5:5. In the divine glow of martyrly enthusiasm of this passage a passage which doubtless did much towards rousing the Christian heroism of the martyr age Paul draws, in a series of antitheses, the sublime contrast between the more than golden treasure and the earthen vessels in which it was contained a contrast meeting in contact in his own person. By the glorifying power... read more
11. For Explanatory of the last verse. We, apostles, which live, are daily martyred in possibility, that the divine conserving life of, or from, Jesus, may appear by our very immortalized mortality. read more
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The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Corinthians 4:10-12
2 Corinthians 4:10-12Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus.Bearing about the dying of ChristThe first and literal meaning of these words is that Paul and his friends were in daily peril of such a death as Christ’s was, and that their trials left sorrowful trace upon form and feature. It is not so that we are called to be “conformable to the death” of our Redeemer. The days of martyrdom are gone. There are those who think to exemplify the text by bearing about with them... read more