2 Corinthians 4:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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 spiritual "life" in you. The life whereof we witness (note, 2 Corinthians 4:11; 2 Corinthians 1:6-7) in our dying flesh extends beyond ourselves, by our very dying, to you.

2 Corinthians 4:12

12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.