Paul reminded his brethren that as Christ's messengers he and his fellow laborers were continually in peril. The hardships they endured were wearing away their strength. "We which live," he wrote, "are alway 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." Suffering physically through privation and toil, these ministers of Christ were conforming to His death. But that which was working death in them was bringing spiritual life and health to the Corinthians, who by a belief in the truth were being made partakers of life eternal. In view of this, the followers of Jesus were to be careful not to increase, by neglect and disaffection, the burdens and trials of the laborers.


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Paulus mindede brødrene om, at som Kristi sendebud var han og hans medarbejdere altid i livsfare. De trængsler, de var ude for, var nær ved at slide deres kræfter op. "Ja, hver stund, vi lever," skrev han, "overgives vi til døden for Jesu skyld, for at Jesu liv må blive åbenbaret i vort dødelige kød. Så gør døden da sin gerning i os, men livet sin gerning i jer."

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