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.
Parallel translations
- WEB For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
- NASB For we who live are constantly being handed over to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.
- NLT Yes, we live under constant danger of death because we serve Jesus, so that the life of Jesus will be evident in our dying bodies.
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Living ministers are continually handed over to death for Jesus' sake, so that His life may be revealed in their mortal bodies. Daily dying displays Christ's living power.
Overview
Paul restates that his ongoing exposure to deadly danger 'for Jesus' sake' serves to manifest the life of Jesus in his frail, mortal flesh. The pattern of cross and resurrection is being worked out in his ministry. This assures believers that suffering endured for Christ is the very stage on which His resurrection life is displayed to the world.
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Cross-references · 8
- 1 Cor 15:49And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.
- Ps 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
- 1 Cor 15:53–54For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
- Rom 8:36As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
- 1 Cor 15:31I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Rom 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.
- 2 Cor 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.
- Ps 141:7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
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