2 Corinthians 4:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
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“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Corinthians 4:11 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
- Psalms 141:7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
- Romans 8:11And 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.
- Romans 8:36As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:31I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 15:49And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.
- 1 Corinthians 15:53For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
- 2 Corinthians 5:4So 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.
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