2 Corinthians 1:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.”
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“Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:”
King James Version · Public Domain“yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Corinthians 1:9 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 40:14Then I will confess to you that your own right hand can save you.
- Psalms 22:29All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him— even those unable to preserve their lives.
- Psalms 44:5Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
- Proverbs 28:26He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.
- Jeremiah 9:23This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.
- Jeremiah 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
- Ezekiel 33:13If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
- Ezekiel 37:1The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
- Luke 18:9To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:
- Romans 4:17As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.
- 2 Corinthians 3:5Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
- 2 Corinthians 4:7Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
- 2 Corinthians 4:13And in keeping with what is written: “I believed, therefore I have spoken,” we who have the same spirit of faith also believe and therefore speak,
- 2 Corinthians 12:7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
- Hebrews 11:19Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.
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