For I am with you and no one will lay a hand on you, because I have many people in this city.”
Parallel translations
- WEB for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
- KJV For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.
- NKJV for I am with you, and no one will attack you to hurt you; for I have many people in this city.”
- NASB for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
- NLT For I am with you, and no one will attack and harm you, for many people in this city belong to me.”
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Quick answer
Christ promised His presence and protection in Corinth, saying He had many people there yet to be saved.
Overview
The Lord grounds Paul's courage in two truths: I am with you, and I have many people in this city. These chosen people were not yet converted but certainly would be, reflecting God's sovereign purpose in salvation (cf. John 10:16). The promise assured Paul that his labor would not be in vain and that gospel ministry rests on God's electing grace.
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- 2 Cor 12:9But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
- Exod 4:12Now go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say.”
- Matt 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- Isa 41:10Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.
- Rom 8:31What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- John 10:16I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.
- 2 Tim 4:22The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.
- Isa 54:17No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
- Jer 15:20–21Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.
- Matt 10:30And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
- Josh 1:9Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
- Isa 43:2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.
- John 11:52and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.
- Rom 10:20–21And Isaiah boldly says: “I was found by those who did not seek Me; I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me.”
- Jer 1:18–19Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
- Luke 21:18Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.
- Acts 15:18that have been known for ages.’
- 2 Tim 4:17But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.
- Josh 1:5No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
- Isa 8:10Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”
- Matt 1:23“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).
- Judg 2:18Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
- Acts 15:14Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.
- 1 Cor 6:9–11Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
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