Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
Bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus - i:e., having Jesus' ('Aleph (') A B C Delta G, Vulgate, omit "the Lord") continual dying re-enacted in my body: having in it the marks of His sufferings (2 Corinthians 1:5), I bear about, wheresoever I go, an image of the Saviour, whose sojourn in the flesh was a continual dying, of which the consummation was His crucifixion (2 Corinthians 4:11; 2 Corinthians 1:5: cf. 1 Corinthians 15:31). Paul was exposed to more dangers than are recorded in Acts (cf. 2 Corinthians 7:5; 2 Corinthians 11:26). х Nekroosin (G3500)] "The dying" is literally, 'the being made a corpse.' Such Paul regarded his body, yet a corpse which shares in the life-giving resurrection-power of Christ.
That the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body - rather, 'may be.' "Jesus" is often repeated, as Paul, amidst sufferings, peculiarly felt its sweetness. In 2 Corinthians 4:11 the same words occur, with the variation, "in our mortal flesh." The fact of a corpse-like body being sustained amidst such trials manifests that "the (resurrection) life also," as well as the dying "of Jesus," exists in us (Philippians 3:10). I thus bear about in my own person an image of the risen and living, as well as of the suffering Saviour. The "our" is added here to "body," though not in the beginning of the verse. 'For the body is ours not so much in death as in life' (Bengel).