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 2:27As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
• 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• 1 Jn 2:20You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
• Rom 8:9But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
• Isa 61:1The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• 2 Th 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.
• Isa 9:7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
• 2 Th 2:8Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;
• Acts 10:38even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
• 2 Cor 5:5Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
• Ps 89:4‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah.
• Isa 62:7and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
• Col 2:7rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
• Isa 49:8Yahweh says, “In an acceptable time I have answered you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you. I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage:
• Isa 59:21“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from henceforth and forever.”
• Ps 45:7You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
• Ps 37:23–24A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.
• John 3:34For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
• Rev 1:6and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
• Rev 3:18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
• Ps 87:5Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her”; the Most High himself will establish her.
• 2 Th 2:17comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
• Rom 16:25—
• 1 Th 3:13to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

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