2 Corinthians 1:21

It is God who firmly establishes Paul and the Corinthians together in Christ and has anointed them. Their standing in Christ is God's own work.

Cross-references · 24

• 1 Jn 2:27And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.
• 1 Pet 5:10And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.
• 1 Jn 2:20You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
• Rom 8:9You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
• Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
• 2 Th 3:3But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
• Isa 9:7Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
• 2 Th 2:8And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
• Acts 10:38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.
• 2 Cor 5:5And God has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come.
• Ps 89:4‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah
• Isa 62:7nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.
• Col 2:7rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
• Isa 49:8This is what the LORD says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,
• Isa 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
• Ps 45:7You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.
• Ps 37:23–24The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.
• John 3:34For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.
• Rev 1:6who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.
• Rev 3:18I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
• Ps 87:5And it will be said of Zion: “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High Himself will establish her.”
• 2 Th 2:17encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.
• Rom 16:25Now to Him who is able to strengthen you by my gospel and by the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery concealed for ages past
• 1 Th 3:13so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.

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