12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
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For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-18)In these verses the apostle gives an account of their courage and patience under all their sufferings, where observe, I. How their sufferings, and patience under them, are declared, 2 Cor. 4:8-12. The apostles were great sufferers; therein they followed their Master: Christ had told them that in the world they should have tribulation , and so they had; yet they met with wonderful support, great re…
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