Bible Cross References
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
1 Corinthians 4:10-13
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For Christ's sake we are fools; but you are wise in union with Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! We are despised, but you are honored!
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To this very moment we go hungry and thirsty; we are clothed in rags; we are beaten; we wander from place to place;
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we wear ourselves out with hard work. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;
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when we are insulted, we answer back with kind words. We are no more than this world's garbage; we are the scum of the earth to this very moment!
Acts 17:1
Paul and Silas traveled on through Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue.
Acts 17:6-12
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But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city authorities and shouted, "These men have caused trouble everywhere! Now they have come to our city,
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and Jason has kept them in his house. They are all breaking the laws of the Emperor, saying that there is another king, whose name is Jesus."
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With these words they threw the crowd and the city authorities in an uproar.
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The authorities made Jason and the others pay the required amount of money to be released, and then let them go.
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As soon as night came, the believers sent Paul and Silas to Berea. When they arrived, they went to the synagogue.
11
The people there were more open-minded than the people in Thessalonica. They listened to the message with great eagerness, and every day they studied the Scriptures to see if what Paul said was really true.
12
Many of them believed; and many Greek women of high social standing and many Greek men also believed.
Acts 20:18
When they arrived, he said to them, "You know how I spent the whole time I was with you, from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.
Acts 20:19
With all humility and many tears I did my work as the Lord's servant during the hard times that came to me because of the plots of some Jews.
2 Corinthians 4:1
God in his mercy has given us this work to do, and so we do not become discouraged.
2 Corinthians 4:7-12
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Yet we who have this spiritual treasure are like common clay pots, in order to show that the supreme power belongs to God, not to us.
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We are often troubled, but not crushed; sometimes in doubt, but never in despair;
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there are many enemies, but we are never without a friend; and though badly hurt at times, we are not destroyed.
10
At all times we carry in our mortal bodies the death of Jesus, so that his life also may be seen in our bodies.
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Throughout our lives we are always in danger of death for Jesus' sake, in order that his life may be seen in this mortal body of ours.
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This means that death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
2 Corinthians 4:16-12
2 Corinthians 6:4
Instead, in everything we do we show that we are God's servants by patiently enduring troubles, hardships, and difficulties.
2 Corinthians 7:5
Even after we arrived in Macedonia, we did not have any rest. There were troubles everywhere, quarrels with others, fears in our hearts.
2 Corinthians 10:1
I, Paul, make a personal appeal to you---I who am said to be meek and mild when I am with you, but harsh with you when I am away. By the gentleness and kindness of Christ
2 Corinthians 10:10
Someone will say, "Paul's letters are severe and strong, but when he is with us in person, he is weak, and his words are nothing!"
2 Corinthians 11:29
When someone is weak, then I feel weak too; when someone is led into sin, I am filled with distress.
2 Corinthians 11:30
If I must boast, I will boast about things that show how weak I am.
2 Corinthians 12:5-10
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So I will boast about this man---but I will not boast about myself, except the things that show how weak I am.
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If I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be telling the truth. But I will not boast, because I do not want any of you to have a higher opinion of me than you have as a result of what you have seen me do and heard me say.
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But to keep me from being puffed up with pride because of the many wonderful things I saw, I was given a painful physical ailment, which acts as Satan's messenger to beat me and keep me from being proud.
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Three times I prayed to the Lord about this and asked him to take it away.
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But his answer was: "My grace is all you need, for my power is greatest when you are weak." I am most happy, then, to be proud of my weaknesses, in order to feel the protection of Christ's power over me.
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I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 13:4
For even though it was in weakness that he was put to death on the cross, it is by God's power that he lives. In union with him we also are weak; but in our relations with you we shall share God's power in his life.
Galatians 4:13
You remember why I preached the gospel to you the first time; it was because I was sick.
Galatians 4:14
But even though my physical condition was a great trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you received me as you would an angel from heaven; you received me as you would Christ Jesus.