2 Corinthians 4:11

Modern

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.

Traditional

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.

Literal

For we the living are always being delivered to death on account of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.

Latin

Semper enim nos, qui vivimus, in mortem tradimur propter Jesum: ut et vita Jesu manifestetur in carne nostra mortali.

Greek

English

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.

Believers often endure the Lord's humiliation, confident they will also share in his triumphant, risen life (4:14).

Theme notes and profiles

1 Corinthians 15:49
And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.
1 Corinthians 15:53–54
For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
Psalm 44:22
Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
Romans 8:36
As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
1 Corinthians 15:31
I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:4
For 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.
Romans 8:11
And 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.
Psalm 141:7
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Jesus: The Son of God and Savior of the world