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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you. We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; knowing that he which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you. The disinterestedness of Christian affection is here seen, in that Paul was willing even to be delivered unto death if only the church in Corinth and other...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. The apostles were always to the front where the shots were flying the fastest, and with the deadliest aim; there they stood, the officers of the army of Christ and Paul rejoiced that, for one, he was able thus to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then death worketh in us, but life in you. These apostolic men lived as it were on the borders of the grave, — lived expecting to die a cruel death; and in this way spiritual life was brought to the Corinthians and others who witnessed their holy lives and heroic deaths.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So then death worketh in us but life in you. So long as Paul could be the means of the salvation of the souls of men, he did not mind what became of himself, though it should be death to him, he would count it as nothing so long as it should bring life to them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. For all things are for your sake, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise us up also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. Note the assurance of apostolic preaching and writing. There is no “if” here, no hesitation, no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. The sickness that crumbles away the body of a Christian often confirms his soul in the faith that he received when...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. For which cause we faint not; Paul had said before that they did not faint, and now he reiterates it that, though his ministry was enough to bear him down, and lay him prostrate in the dust, yet he did not faint.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet the inward man is renewed day by day. As our body, through pain and disease, is constantly sinking towards the grave, here is our continual consolation, that our inner man is renewed day by day.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
; 2Co_4:18. But though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; Notice the antithesis here. “Light affliction” — a “weight of glory.” “Affliction” is not set in contrast with peace, or freedom from affliction, but with “glory.” The “light affliction” is “for a moment” — the “weight of glory” is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; This is one of the most remarkable verses in all Scripture; the contrast here drawn is perfect, and the language is in the highest degree pertinent to the subject. When the apostle speaks of affliction, he contrasts with it glory....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. This exposition consisted of readings from 2...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While we look not at the things which are seen,- Alas for us if we did! 2Co_4:18. But at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; Temporal and temporary; see how they melt away one after another! 2Co_4:18. But the things which are not seen are eternal. The substance is beyond the river, the shadows are here. God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, — In this poor body it is our lot often to groan, but the groan is a hopeful one, for it is a birth-pang, and it will bring joy in due time: “For in this we groan,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
1. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Is not this grand courage on the part of the apostle? With all the world against him, and himself “alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake,” he looks at the new body, the new house that God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: if it be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is...