For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
Troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed, yet not in despair; persecuted, yet not forsaken of God. Whatever condition God's children face in this world, they have a 'but not' to comfort themselves with, their case is bad, but never so bad as it might be, for God supports and delivers.
AI summary
Commenting on 2 Corinthians 4:8-18
Verse 11. For we which live. Those of us, the apostles and ministers of the Redeemer, who still survive. James the brother of John had been put to death, (;) and it is probable also that some other of the apostles had been also. This verse is merely explanatory of the previous verse. Are alway delivered unto death. Exposed constantly to death.
we which live--in the power of Christ's "life" manifested in us, in our whole man body as well as spirit (Rom 8:10-11; see on Co2 4:10; compare Co2 5:15). Paul regards his preservation amidst so many exposures to "death," by which Stephen and James were cut off, as a standing miracle (Co2 11:23).