Note 10 at 2 Cor. 4:10: Paul is always bearing about in his body the dying of the Lord Jesus. Not his death, but his dying. The present tense in verse 11 emphasizes that this was a continual situation of being exposed to the possibility of death and harm. As R.V.G. Tasker explains in his commentary on 2 Corinthians, "To live for Jesus' sake involved the readiness to suffer physically and mentally for His sake; it meant being hated for His sake; and it carried with it the liability of being put to death for His sake. But the fact that the suffering did not overwhelm him, that the world's hatred did not overcome him, and that the martyrdom that seemed always so inevitable and so imminent had so far been postponed, was in itself evidence that a supernatural power, the life of Jesus, was being made manifest in his mortal flesh" (Tyndale Commentary).

Note 11 at 2 Cor. 4:10: Paul is saying that he died to his own self so that Christ might live through him (Gal. 2:20).

Note 12 at 2 Cor. 4:10: It is only when we die to "self" (see note 3 at Rom. 6:2, p. 776; see note 6 at Rom. 6:4, p. 777) that Christ can manifest His life in our mortal bodies. Anyone who is letting "self" control his life is not letting God control it. We cannot have it both ways. It's one way or the other.