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.
Parallel translations
- WEB always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
- BSB We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
- NKJV always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
- NASB always carrying around in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
- NLT Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies.
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Paul carries in his body the dying of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed in him. Sharing Christ's sufferings reveals Christ's resurrection life.
Overview
Paul interprets his sufferings as participating in 'the putting to death of the Lord Jesus,' so that Christ's risen life becomes visible through him. His afflictions are not meaningless but are the very means by which the life of Jesus is shown. This ties the minister's hardships directly to the death and resurrection of Christ at the heart of the gospel.
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- Rom 6:5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
- 2 Tim 2:11It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
- 1 Pet 4:13But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
- Rom 6:8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
- Phil 3:10–11That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
- Rom 8:17–18And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
- 2 Cor 13:4For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
- Col 1:24Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
- Rom 8:36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
- 2 Cor 1:9But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
- 2 Cor 1:5For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
- Gal 6:17From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
- John 14:19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
- Rev 1:17And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
- Acts 18:9–10Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:
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