Charles Spurgeon Commentary 2 Corinthians 4:12

"So then death worketh in us, but life in you." — 2 Corinthians 4:12 (ASV)

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.

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.