Bible Cross References
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2 Corinthians 4:1
God in his mercy has given us this work to do, and so we do not become discouraged.
2 Corinthians 6:10
although saddened, we are always glad; we seem poor, but we make many people rich; we seem to have nothing, yet we really possess everything.
Matthew 13:44
"The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A man happens to find a treasure hidden in a field. He covers it up again, and is so happy that he goes and sells everything he has, and then goes back and buys that field.
Matthew 13:52
So he replied, "This means, then, that every teacher of the Law who becomes a disciple in the Kingdom of heaven is like a homeowner who takes new and old things out of his storage room."
Ephesians 3:8
I am less than the least of all God's people; yet God gave me this privilege of taking to the Gentiles the Good News about the infinite riches of Christ,
Colossians 1:27
God's plan is to make known his secret to his people, this rich and glorious secret which he has for all peoples. And the secret is that Christ is in you, which means that you will share in the glory of God.
Colossians 2:3
He is the key that opens all the hidden treasures of God's wisdom and knowledge.
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2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that when this tent we live in---our body here on earth---is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in, a home he himself has made, which will last forever.
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!"
Judges 7:13
When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling a friend about a dream. He was saying, "I dreamed that a loaf of barley bread rolled into our camp and hit a tent. The tent collapsed and lay flat on the ground."
Judges 7:14
His friend replied, "It's the sword of the Israelite, Gideon son of Joash! It can't mean anything else! God has given him victory over Midian and our whole army!"
Judges 7:16-20
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He divided his three hundred men into three groups and gave each man a trumpet and a jar with a torch inside it.
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He told them, "When I get to the edge of the camp, watch me, and do what I do.
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When my group and I blow our trumpets, then you blow yours all around the camp and shout, 'For the LORD and for Gideon!' "
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Gideon and his one hundred men came to the edge of the camp a while before midnight, just after the guard had been changed. Then they blew the trumpets and broke the jars they were holding,
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and the other two groups did the same. They all held the torches in their left hands, the trumpets in their right, and shouted, "A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!"
Lamentations 4:2
Zion's young people were as precious to us as gold, but now they are treated like common clay pots.
1 Corinthians 1:28
He chose what the world looks down on and despises and thinks is nothing, in order to destroy what the world thinks is important.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
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For it seems to me that God has given the very last place to us apostles, like people condemned to die in public as a spectacle for the whole world of angels and of human beings.
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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!
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.
2 Timothy 2:20
In a large house there are dishes and bowls of all kinds: some are made of silver and gold, others of wood and clay; some are for special occasions, others for ordinary use.
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2 Corinthians 3:5
There is nothing in us that allows us to claim that we are capable of doing this work. The capacity we have comes from God;
2 Corinthians 3:6
it is he who made us capable of serving the new covenant, which consists not of a written law but of the Spirit. The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.
2 Corinthians 12:7-9
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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.
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.
1 Corinthians 2:3-5
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So when I came to you, I was weak and trembled all over with fear,
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and my teaching and message were not delivered with skillful words of human wisdom, but with convincing proof of the power of God's Spirit.
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Your faith, then, does not rest on human wisdom but on God's power.
Ephesians 1:19
and how very great is his power at work in us who believe. This power working in us is the same as the mighty strength
Ephesians 1:20
which he used when he raised Christ from death and seated him at his right side in the heavenly world.
Ephesians 2:5
that while we were spiritually dead in our disobedience he brought us to life with Christ. It is by God's grace that you have been saved.
Ephesians 2:8
For it is by God's grace that you have been saved through faith. It is not the result of your own efforts, but God's gift, so that no one can boast about it.
Ephesians 2:9
(SEE 2:8)
Colossians 2:12
For when you were baptized, you were buried with Christ, and in baptism you were also raised with Christ through your faith in the active power of God, who raised him from death.
1 Thessalonians 1:5
For we brought the Good News to you, not with words only, but also with power and the Holy Spirit, and with complete conviction of its truth. You know how we lived when we were with you; it was for your own good.