Then even I would confess to you that your own right hand does save you.
2 Corinthians 1:9 - The Scriptures 2009 Indeed, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in Elohim who raises the dead, Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Indeed, we felt within ourselves that we had received the [very] sentence of death, but that was to keep us from trusting in and depending on ourselves instead of on God Who raises the dead. American Standard Version (1901) yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead: Common English Bible It certainly seemed to us as if we had gotten the death penalty. This was so that we would have confidence in God, who raises the dead, instead of ourselves. Catholic Public Domain Version But we had within ourselves the response to death, so that we would not have faith in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead. |
Then even I would confess to you that your own right hand does save you.
All the fat ones of the earth Shall eat and bow themselves; All who go down to the dust bow before Him, Even he who did not keep alive his own life.
By his own evildoing the wrong is thrust down, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.
He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, But he who walks wisely is delivered.
I said, “Am I to go into the gates of She’ol in the prime of my life? Shall I be deprived of the rest of my years?”
“When I say to the righteous that he shall live, and he has trusted in his righteousness, and shall do unrighteousness, none of his righteousness shall be remembered, but because of his unrighteousness that he has done, he shall die.
And He also spoke this parable to some who relied on themselves that they were righteous, and looking down on others:
As it has been written, “For Your sake we are killed all day long, we are reckoned as sheep of slaughter.”
who rescued us from so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we trust that He shall still rescue us,
For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, of our pressure which came to us in Asia, that we were weighed down, exceedingly, beyond ability, so that we despaired even of life.
Not that we are competent in ourselves to reckon any matter as from ourselves, but our competence is from Elohim,
And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power might be of Elohim, and not of us –
reckoning that Elohim was able to raise, even from the dead, from which he received him back, as a type.