2 Corinthians 4:8

Paul is pressed hard on every side but not crushed, perplexed but not driven to despair. God sustains His servants through severe trials.

Cross-references · 21

• Jas 1:2–4My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
• Rom 8:35–37Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
• 1 Pet 4:12–14Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
• 2 Cor 12:10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
• Ps 56:2–3Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
• 2 Cor 7:5For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
• Rom 5:3–5And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
• 1 Pet 1:6–7Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
• Ps 37:33The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
• Job 2:9–10Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
• 2 Cor 1:8–10For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
• John 14:18I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
• 1 Cor 10:13There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
• 2 Cor 4:16–17For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
• 1 Sam 28:15And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
• 2 Cor 6:4But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
• 1 Sam 30:6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
• 2 Cor 11:23–30Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
• Prov 14:26In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
• Prov 18:10The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
• 1 Sam 31:4Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

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