2 Corinthians 1:9

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In fact, we still feel as if we’re under a death sentence. But we suffered so that we would stop trusting ourselves and learn to trust God, who brings the dead back to life.

Cross References

Job 40:14

Then even I will praise you because your right hand can save you.

Psalm 22:29

All prosperous people on earth will eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust will kneel in front of him, even those who are barely alive.

Proverbs 14:32

A wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but even in his death a righteous person has a refuge.

Proverbs 28:26

Whoever trusts his own heart is a fool. Whoever walks in wisdom will survive.

Isaiah 38:10

I thought that in the prime of my life I would go down to the gates of Sheol and be robbed of the rest of my life.

Ezekiel 33:13

I may promise the righteous person that he will certainly live. But if he trusts in the right things that he has done and he does evil, none of the right things that he has done will be remembered. He will die because of the evil things he has done.

Luke 18:9

Jesus also used this illustration with some who were sure that God approved of them while they looked down on everyone else.

Romans 8:36

As Scripture says: “We are being killed all day long because of you. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.”

2 Corinthians 1:10

He has rescued us from a terrible death, and he will rescue us in the future. We are confident that he will continue to rescue us,

2 Corinthians 1:8

Brothers and sisters, we don’t want you to be ignorant about the suffering we experienced in the province of Asia. It was so extreme that it was beyond our ability to endure. We even wondered if we could go on living.

2 Corinthians 3:5

By ourselves we are not qualified in any way to claim that we can do anything. Rather, God makes us qualified.

2 Corinthians 4:7

Our bodies are made of clay, yet we have the treasure of the Good News in them. This shows that the superior power of this treasure belongs to God and doesn’t come from us.

Hebrews 11:19

Abraham believed that God could bring Isaac back from the dead. Abraham did receive Isaac back from the dead in a figurative sense.