“ So then death worketh in us, but life in you. ”
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...
(7) So then death worketh in us, but life in you. (7) A very wise conclusion: as if he would say, "Therefore, to be short, we die that you may live by our death", because they ventured into all thos...
It is true that the splendid character of this ministry is for the present obscured by the earthly and physical conditions under which it is discharged. Paul is conscious that this disability is spec...
worketh. Greek. energeo. See Romans 7:5 .
12. Hence death indeed. This is said ironically, because it was unseemly that the Corinthians should live happily, and in accordance with their desire, and that they should, free from anxiet...
So then death worketh in us, but life in you. Death worketh in us, etc. - We apostles are in continual danger, and live a dying life; while you who have received this Gospel from us are in no danger....
So then death worketh in us,— Or, is wrought in us. "So that the preaching of the Gospel procures sufferings and danger of death to me, but to you it procures life; that is, the energy of the Spi...
So then death worketh in us, but life in you. The "death" of Christ, manifested in the continual 'perishing of our outward man' ( 2 Corinthians 4:16 ), works in us, and is the means of working...
1-6. The messengers of this gospel are not afraid to proclaim it, for they preach Christ, who has revealed the glory of God. 1, 2. Paraphrase. 'Having this glorious gospel to preach, we proclaim...
So then death worketh in us, but life in you. — “Life” is here clearly used in its higher spiritual sense, as in the preceding verse. We trace in the words something of the same pathos as in 1 Cor...
Chapter 12 THE VICTORY OF FAITH. 2 Corinthians 4:7-18 (R.V) IN the opening verses of this chapter Paul has magnified his office, and his equipment for it. He has risen to a great height, poeti...
the Inward Life Triumphant over Affliction 2 Corinthians 4:7-18 Few men have been more conscious of their weakness than was the Apostle. The earthen vessel had become very cracked and scratched...
Continuing about the ministry, the apostle said, "We faint not," "we have renounced the hidden things of shame," "we preach... Christ Jesus as Lord." Hearing, some perish because "the god of this wor...
(8) We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; (9) Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; (10) Always bearing about in the body the...
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 ch...
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you. Ver. 12. Death worketh in us ] It hath already seized upon us, but yet we are not killed with death, as those were, Revelation 2:2...
We are troubled The four articles in this verse respect inward, the four in the next outward afflictions. In each clause the former part shows the earthen vessels; the latter, the excellence of the...
Chapter s 4 and 5 now show some of the precious, practical results of this ministry, seen in those entrusted with it; for it is such a ministry itself that works powerfully in them to enable them to...
The Apostles' Sufferings and Supports. A. D. 57. 8 We are troubled on every side, yet not...
You see the difference between us and you; either the real difference, or the fancied difference. We are killed all the day long, in deaths often, delivered to death always; you are rich, and full, a...
‘So then death works in us, but life in you.' A further contrast is given, that the death that works in them, crucifying their flesh with its worldly hopes, affections and desires ( Galatians 5:24 ),...
CRITICAL NOTES 2 Corinthians 4:8 .—“Pressed for room, and still having room” (Stanley). “Perplexed, but not utterly perplexed” (Beet). Apparent, not real, contradiction to 2 Corinthians 1:8 (sa...
2 Corinthians 4:1 . Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; It is a very high privilege to be called to the work of the Christian ministry, and when the m...
2 Corinthians 4:1 . Seeing we have this ministry, of grace and reconciliation to a guilty world; the ministry of righteousness, not of condemnation; the ministry of life, and not of death; we have...
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed. Trials in the cause of Christ I. The trials encountered in the cause of Christ are sometimes very great. “We are troubled on every side.” The...
EXPOSITION The glory of the gospel ministry ( 2 Corinthians 4:1-47 ), which sustains the hearts of Christ's ministers among all weaknesses and trials ( 2 Corinthians 4:7-47 ), especially by the...
Paul's bodily weakness:
1 Corinthians 4:10 ; 1 John 3:16 ; 2 Corinthians 12:15 ; 2 Corinthians 13:9 ; Acts 20:24 ; Philippians 2:17 ; Philippians 2:30
So then death worketh in us, but life in you — You live in peace; we die daily. Yet — Living or dying, so long as we believe, we cannot but speak.