2 Corinthians (KJV)
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
We the apostles. Paul here refers to some of the trials to which he and his fellow laborers were subjected in making known the gospel. The “design” for which he does it seems to be to show them:
(1)What they endured in preaching the truth;
(2)To show the sustaining power of that gospel in the midst of afflictions; and,
(3)To conciliate their favor, or to remind them that they had endured these things on their account, 2 Corinthians 4:12-15.
