2 Corinthians 4:12
What meaning of the 2 corinthians 4:12 in the Bible?
What does 2 Corinthians 4:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"So then death worketh in us, but life in you."
What does 2 Corinthians 4:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"So then death worketh in us, but life in you."
Verse 2 Corinthians 4:12. _DEATH WORKETH IN US_, c.] We apostles are in continual danger, and live a dying life while you who have received this Gospel from us are in no danger....
SO THEN DEATH WORKETH IN US - We are exposed to death. The preaching of the gospel exposes us to trials which may be regarded as death working in us. Death has an energy over us (ἐνεργεῖται energeit...
5. THE CHARACTER OF THE TRUE MINISTRY. CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The Gospel of the Glory of Christ. (2 Corinthians 4:1)_ 2. The Treasure in Earthen Vessels; Weakness and Power. (2 Corinthians 4:7) 3. Resurre...
It is true that the splendid character of this ministry is for the present obscured by the earthly and physical conditions under which it is discharged. Paul is conscious that this disability is speci...
THE BLINDED EYE (2 Corinthians 4:1-6)...
WORKETH. Greek. _energeo._ See Romans 7:5....
_So then death worketh in us, but life in you_ See 1 Corinthians 4:9. The Apostle here enunciates a principle common to the material and the spiritual world. From death comes life, from decay regenera...
12. The tendency to insert μέν, against overwhelming evidence, in order to balance a subsequent δέ, is here illustrated. KL and some late authorities here read ὥστε ὁ μὲν θάνατος: comp. Acts 5:23; Act...
_OVERCOMING MANY TROUBLES 2 CORINTHIANS 4:8-15:_ Bad things come to good people. Paul mentions four bad things that had come his way and four ways that those things could be worse. He said, "We are tr...
ΏΣΤΕ (G5620) следовательно. Используется как вводная частица, со _знач._ "итак, так что" (IBG, 144). ΕΝΕΡΓΕΊΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med._/pass. от ΈΝΕΡΓΈΩ (G1754) работать, действовать. Если это dep. _med._...
SO THEN DEATH WORKETH IN US,— Or, _is wrought in us._ "So that the preaching of the Gospel procures sufferings and danger of death to me, but to you it procures life; that is, the energy of the Spirit...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 Mortality (2 Corinthians 4:7-15) 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us. 8We are afflicted in...
So then death worketh in us, but life in you. The "death" of Christ, manifested in the continual 'perishing of our outward man' (), works in us, and is the means of working spiritual "life" in you....
10 The widespread fiction that the life of a Christian must be one of settled calm and contentment, prosperous and in every way advantageous in this life, is proven utterly fallacious by the experienc...
1-6. The messengers of this gospel are not afraid to proclaim it, for they preach Christ, who has revealed the glory of God. 1, 2. PARAPHRASE. 'Having this glorious gospel to preach, we proclaim it b...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 4 V1 God in his *mercy has given us this work to do. As a result, we do not lose hope. V2 We do not do things in secret a...
SO THEN DEATH WORKETH IN US, BUT LIFE IN YOU. — “Life” is here clearly used in its higher spiritual sense, as in the preceding verse. We trace in the words something of the same pathos as in 1 Corinth...
CHAPTER 12 THE VICTORY OF FAITH. 2 Corinthians 4:7 (R.V) IN the opening verses of this chapter Paul has magnified his office, and his equipment for it. He has risen to a great height, poetic and spi...
HIS BODILY WEAKNESS DOES NOT ANNUL THE EFFECTS OF HIS MINISTRY....
THE INWARD LIFE TRIUMPHANT OVER AFFLICTION 2 Corinthians 4:7 Few men have been more conscious of their weakness than was the Apostle. The earthen vessel had become very cracked and scratched, but the...
Continuing about the ministry, the apostle said, "We faint not," "we have renounced the hidden things of shame," "we preach... Christ Jesus as Lord." Hearing, some perish because "the god of this worl...
GOD'S PROCLAIMERS WILL OVERCOME The treasure would be the gospel. That treasure is carried to the world in earthly vessels, that is, our bodies. Because the body is weak, the greatness of the message...
(7) So then death worketh in us, but life in you. (7) A very wise conclusion: as if he would say, "Therefore, to be short, we die that you may live by our death", because they ventured into all those...
_Death worketh in us, when we are under persecutions, and dangers of death, and life in you, who live in ease and plenty. (Witham) --- The preaching of the gospel, which we undertake in such a disinte...
(8) We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; (9) Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; (10) Always bearing about in the body the d...
12._Hence death indeed. _This is said ironically, because it was unseemly that the Corinthians should live happily, and in accordance with their desire, and that they should, free from anxiety, take t...
Having received this ministry of righteousness and of the Spirit, the foundation of which was Christ glorified beheld with open face, he not only used great boldness of speech, but his zeal was not ab...
SO THEN DEATH WORKETH IN US,.... This is the conclusion of the foregoing account, or the inference deduced from it; either the death, or dying of Christ, that is, the sufferings of his body, the churc...
_ 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you._ __ Ver. 12. _ Death worketh in us_ _] It hath already seized upon us, but yet we are not killed with death, as those were, Revelation 2:23_ _. As a...
_We are troubled_ The four articles in this verse respect inward, the four in the next outward afflictions. In each clause the former part shows the earthen vessels; the latter, the excellence of the...
DEATH-IN US, BUT LIFE IN YOU; our labors, which constantly expose us to death, promote your eternal life. He does not deny that life works in himself also; but he wishes to exhibit his sufferings as c...
Paul's bodily weakness:...
Chapter s 4 and 5 now show some of the precious, practical results of this ministry, seen in those entrusted with it; for it is such a ministry itself that works powerfully in them to enable them to c...
8-12 The apostles were great sufferers, yet they met with wonderful support. Believers may be forsaken of their friends, as well as persecuted by enemies; but their God will never leave them nor forsa...
You see the difference between us and you; either the real difference, or the fancied difference. We are killed all the day long, in deaths often, delivered to death always; you are rich, and full, an...
So then death worketh in us, but life in you. [The apostle has been speaking of having and holding the knowledge of God in a mortal body. But the knowledge of God brings with it the eternal life that...
Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus they are in lack of all things, and yet abound in all; they are dishonoured, and yet in their very dishonour are glorified. They are evil spoken of, and yet are justi...
2 Corinthians 4:12 So G5620 then G3303 death G2288 working G1754 (G5731) in G1722 us G2254 but G1161 life G2222 in G1722 you G5213 death - 2 Corinthians 12:15, 2 Corinthians 13:9; Acts 20:24;...
‘So then death works in us, but life in you.' A further contrast is given, that the death that works in them, crucifying their flesh with its worldly hopes, affections and desires (Galatians 5:24), re...
DEATH WORKETH IN US (ο θανατος εν ημιν ενεργειτα). Middle voice present tense of the old verb to operate, be at work. Physical death works in him while spiritual life (paradox) works in them....
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;_ It is a very high privilege to be called to the work of the Christian ministry, and when the mini...
CONTENTS: Truth taught, commended by the life. The preaching of the Lordship of Christ. The suffering of true ministers with Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: A steadfast adherence...
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Seeing we have this ministry,_ of grace and reconciliation to a guilty world; the ministry of righteousness, not of condemnation; the ministry of life, and not of death; we have li...
THIS MEANS. The death that attacks the servants of Christ in many ways, was the means of spreading the message of life! Paul's work brought suffering to him, but life to those who heard the Good News!...
_We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed._ TRIALS IN THE CAUSE OF CHRIST I. The trials encountered in the cause of Christ are sometimes very great. “We are troubled on every side.” The man...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 4:1 Paul explains why he does not become discouraged in his ministry, despite his many afflictions (2 Corinthians 4:1, 2 Corinthians 4:16; 2 Corinthians 5:6). He th...
CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. From what was said in the last chapter of the glory and honour belonging to the office of a preacher of the Gospel, S. Paul proceeds to assert that he discharges...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 4:8.—“Pressed for room, and still having room” (Stanley). “Perplexed, but not utterly perplexed” (Beet). Apparent, not real, contradiction to 2 Corinthians 1:8 (same wo...
EXPOSITION The glory of the gospel ministry (2 Corinthians 4:1), which sustains the hearts of Christ's ministers among all weaknesses and trials (2 Corinthians 4:7), especially by the faith in things...
Therefore seeing we have this ministry (2 Corinthians 4:1), What ministry? Pointing people to Jesus Christ. as we have received mercy, we faint not; But [we] have renounced the hidden things of dish...
1 Corinthians 4:10; 1 John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 12:15; 2 Corinthians 13:9; Acts 20:24; Philippians 2:17; Philippians 2:30...
So then death worketh in us, but life in you — You live in peace; we die daily. Yet — Living or dying, so long as we believe, we cannot but speak....