2 Corinthians 4

7 Further, we have this treasure in jars of clay,*That we are clay pots does not change the nature of the "treasure". so that this all-surpassing power may be of God and not from ourselves*God gives us the privilege of using His power, but we had better not try to take the credit! 8 —we are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, yet not abandoned; knocked down, but not out;*Dear me, this really doesn’t sound like ‘easy street’ or a ‘bed of roses’! Paul is talking about very real struggle. 10 always carrying about in the body the putting to death of the Lord*Perhaps 5% of the Greek manuscripts omit "Lord", to be followed by NIV, NASB, LB, TEV, etc. Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our body.*One is reminded of 1 Corinthians 15:31, where Paul says, "I die daily". Clearly he cannot be referring to physical death, so it must be a dying to self. As I die to myself, to my own ideas and desires, the life of Jesus will be manifested in and through me. Or as he put it in Galatians 2:20, "I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me; what I now live in this body I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself in my place." 11 For we, the living, are always being handed over to death for Jesus' sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.*You can’t have resurrection without death.