2 Corinthians 4:12 BSB

2 Corinthians 4:12

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

KJV

So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

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Commentary

2 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on 2 Corinthians (1274)

What results from this is mentioned when he continues, so death is at work, i.e., exercises its sway, in us, but life, namely, the present one, works in you, because you live in prosperity: "We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in …

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The "death" of Christ manifested in the continual "perishing of our outward man" (2Co 4:16), works peculiarly in us, and is the means of working spiritual "life" in you. The life whereof we witness in our bodily dying, extends beyond ourselves, and is brought by our very dying to you.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὥστε	hōste	So then	G5620 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
θάνατος	thanatos	death	G2288 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ἡμῖν	hēmin	us	G3165 →
ἐνεργεῖται,	energeitai	works,	G1754 →
ἡ	hē	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
ζωὴ	zōē	life	G2222 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ὑμῖν.¶	humin	you.	G4771 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 John 3:16
By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
leads to
- 1 John 4:9–11
  This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
- Ephesians 5:2
  and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
- John 13:34
  A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
- John 3:16
  For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- Romans 5:8
  But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Through
Acts 20:24
But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good…
leads to
- 2 Timothy 4:6–8
  For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.
- 2 Corinthians 12:10
  That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
- 2 Corinthians 4:1
  Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About 2 Corinthians

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 2 Corinthians