Bible Strands
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
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Study note
Setting — Paul writes to the Corinthian church during his ongoing missionary labor, explaining why his physical suffering accompanies his proclamation of the gospel.
The words — παραδιδόμεθα (paradidometha) = are being delivered and ἀεὶ (aei) = always. The Greek indicates a continuous, ongoing surrender rather than a single past event.
The thread — The motif of enduring for God’s sake appears in Psalms 44:22, while the transformation of the mortal body into immortality is outlined in 1 Corinthians 15:53.
Why it lands — The text states that physical vulnerability serves to display Christ’s life; it asks readers to accept suffering as the ordinary channel through which divine life operates.
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The Greek words
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.
Cross-references
- 1 Corinthians 15:49 And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.
- 1 Corinthians 15:53 For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
- Psalms 44:22 Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
- Romans 8:36 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 I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 8:11 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.
- 2 Corinthians 5:4 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.
- Psalms 141:7 As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.