Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
Parallel translations
- KJV Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
- BSB Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.
- NKJV Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart.
- NASB Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart,
- NLT Therefore, since God in his mercy has given us this new way, we never give up.
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Cross-references · 15
- 2 Th 3:13But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing well.
- Gal 6:9Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
- Eph 3:13Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
- Rev 2:3You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
- 2 Cor 4:16Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
- Eph 3:7–8of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
- Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
- 2 Cor 3:12Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
- Heb 12:3For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
- 2 Cor 3:6who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
- 1 Cor 7:25Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
- 1 Pet 2:10who in time past were no people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
- 2 Cor 5:18But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
- 1 Tim 1:13although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
- Isa 40:30Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
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