Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

who rescued us from so great a danger of death, and will rescue us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,

to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?

But if the ministry of death, engraved in letters on stones, came with glory so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was,

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.

So death works in us, but life in you.

as unknown and yet well known, as dying and yet behold, we are alive; as punished and yet not put to death,

For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.

Are they servants of Christ?—I am speaking as if insane—I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death.