2 Corinthians 4:11

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2 Corinthians 4:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible

9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.

10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

11 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.

12 So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

13 And in keeping with what is written: “I believed, therefore I have spoken,” we who have the same spirit of faith also believe and therefore speak,

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Psalms 44:22

Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Psalms 141:7

As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

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.

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.

2 Corinthians 5:4

So 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.

1 Corinthians 15:53

For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

1 Corinthians 15:54

When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”