2 Corinthians 6:9

Paul is treated as unknown yet is well known, dying yet alive, punished yet not destroyed. God preserves His servants through apparent defeat.

Cross-references · 18

• 2 Cor 4:10–11Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
• Rom 8:36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
• 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:
• 2 Cor 4:2But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
• Ps 118:17–18I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
• 2 Cor 11:6But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
• 1 Cor 4:9For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
• Acts 25:14–15And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul’s cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:
• Acts 25:19But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
• Rom 15:19Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
• Acts 25:26Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.
• 1 Cor 11:32But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
• Gal 1:22–24And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
• Acts 21:37–38And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?
• Acts 17:18Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
• Acts 19:26Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
• 1 Cor 15:31I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our LORD, I die daily.
• 2 Cor 5:11Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

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