2 Corinthians 4:7-12
1599 Geneva Bible
7 [a]But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, [b]that the excellency of that power might be of God, and not of us.
8 We are afflicted on every side, yet are we not in distress: we are in doubt, but yet we despair not.
9 We are persecuted, but not forsaken: cast down, but we perish not.
10 [c]Everywhere we bear about in our body the [d]dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus might also be made manifest in our bodies.
11 For we which [e]live, are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our [f]mortal flesh.
12 [g]So then death worketh in us, and life in you.
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- 2 Corinthians 4:7 He taketh away a stumbling block, by which was darkened, amongst some, the bright shining of the ministry of the Gospel, to wit, because the Apostles were the most miserable of all men, Paul answereth that he and his fellows are as it were earthen vessels, but yet there is in them a most precious treasure.
- 2 Corinthians 4:7 He bringeth marvelous reasons, why the Lord doth so afflict his chiefest servants, to the end saith he that all men may perceive that they stand not by any man’s virtue, but by the singular virtue of God, in that they die a thousand times, but never perish.
- 2 Corinthians 4:10 An amplification of the former sentence, wherein he compareth his afflictions to a daily death, and the virtue of the Spirit of God in Christ, to life, which oppresseth that death.
- 2 Corinthians 4:10 So Paul calleth that miserable estate and condition, that the faithful, but especially the minsters, are in.
- 2 Corinthians 4:11 Which live, that life, to wit, by the Spirit of Christ, amongst so many and so great miseries.
- 2 Corinthians 4:11 Subject to that miserable condition.
- 2 Corinthians 4:12 A very cunning conclusion: as if he would say, Therefore to be short, we die, that you may live by our death, for that they ventured into all those dangers for the building of the Church’s sake, and they ceased not to confirm all the faithful with the examples of their patience.
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