2 Corinthians 1:9

Paul felt as good as condemned to death, but this taught him to trust not in himself but in God who raises the dead. Extremity drove him to deeper reliance on God.

Cross-references · 15

• 2 Cor 3:5Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
• Heb 11:19Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.
• 2 Cor 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 Cor 12:7–10or 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.
• Rom 4:17–25As 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.
• Ps 44:5–7Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
• Job 40:14Then I will confess to you that your own right hand can save you.
• Ezek 37:1–14The 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:
• Prov 28:26He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.
• Jer 9:23–24This 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.
• 2 Cor 4:13–14And 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,
• Jer 17:5–7This 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.
• Ezek 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.
• Ps 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.

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