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 sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
• Heb 11:19concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
• 2 Cor 4:7But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
• 2 Cor 12:7–10By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
• Rom 4:17–25As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
• Ps 44:5–7Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
• Job 40:14Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you.
• Ezek 37:1–14Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.
• Luke 18:9He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
• Prov 28:26One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
• Jer 9:23–24Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
• 2 Cor 4:13–14But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke.” We also believe, and therefore also we speak;
• Jer 17:5–7Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
• Ezek 33:13When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.
• Ps 22:29All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can’t keep his soul alive.

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