2 Corinthians 13:4

Christ was crucified in weakness yet lives by God's power, and Paul shares both his weakness and his risen power toward them. It matters because the cross-and-resurrection pattern shapes the whole of Christian ministry.

Cross-references · 22

• 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
• Rom 6:4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
• 2 Cor 10:3–4For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
• Rom 6:8–11Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
• 2 Tim 2:11–12It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
• 1 Cor 2:3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
• Heb 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
• Phil 2:7–11But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
• 1 Cor 15:43It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
• John 10:18No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
• Luke 22:43–44And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
• Eph 1:19–23And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
• Phil 3:10That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
• Rom 14:9For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
• Acts 4:10–12Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
• Rom 1:4And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
• 2 Cor 4:7–12But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
• Acts 2:36Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
• 1 Pet 3:22Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
• 2 Cor 10:10For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
• Acts 3:16And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
• Rev 1:17–18And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:

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