1 Corinthians 2:3

Paul came to them in weakness, fear, and trembling. His ministry succeeded despite, even through, his human frailty.

Cross-references · 19

• 2 Cor 13:4For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
• 1 Cor 4:10–13We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
• 2 Cor 13:9For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
• 2 Cor 12:5–10On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
• 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
• 2 Cor 4:7–12But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
• 2 Cor 10:10For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”
• 2 Cor 6:4but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
• 2 Cor 4:16Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
• Gal 4:13–14but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
• Acts 17:6–12When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
• 2 Cor 7:5For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
• 2 Cor 11:29–30Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
• Acts 20:18–19When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
• Acts 18:12But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,
• Acts 18:6When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
• 2 Cor 10:1Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
• Acts 17:1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
• Acts 18:1After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.

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