2 Corinthians 4:9

Good News Translation

there are many enemies, but we are never without a friend; and though badly hurt at times, we are not destroyed.

Cross References

Job 22:29

God brings down the proud and saves the humble.

Psalm 129:2

“Ever since I was young, my enemies have persecuted me cruelly, but they have not overcome me.

Psalm 22:1

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I have cried desperately for help, but still it does not come.

Psalm 37:28

for the Lord loves what is right and does not abandon his faithful people. He protects them forever, but the descendants of the wicked will be driven out.

Psalm 42:11

Why am I so sad? Why am I so troubled? I will put my hope in God, and once again I will praise him, my savior and my God.

Psalm 42:5

Why am I so sad? Why am I so troubled? I will put my hope in God, and once again I will praise him, my savior and my God.

Psalm 9:10

Those who know you, Lord, will trust you; you do not abandon anyone who comes to you.

Proverbs 24:16

No matter how often honest people fall, they always get up again; but disaster destroys the wicked.

Isaiah 43:2

When you pass through deep waters, I will be with you; your troubles will not overwhelm you. When you pass through fire, you will not be burned; the hard trials that come will not hurt you.

Isaiah 62:4

No longer will you be called “Forsaken,” Or your land be called “The Deserted Wife.” Your new name will be “God Is Pleased with Her.” Your land will be called “Happily Married,” Because the Lord is pleased with you And will be like a husband to your land.

Micah 7:8

Our enemies have no reason to gloat over us. We have fallen, but we will rise again. We are in darkness now, but the Lord will give us light.

Habakkuk 3:17

Even though the fig trees have no fruit and no grapes grow on the vines, even though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no grain, even though the sheep all die and the cattle stalls are empty,

John 15:20

Remember what I told you: ‘Slaves are not greater than their master.’ If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.

Romans 8:35

Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death?

2 Corinthians 7:6

But God, who encourages the downhearted, encouraged us with the coming of Titus.

2 Timothy 3:12

Everyone who wants to live a godly life in union with Christ Jesus will be persecuted;

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, “I will never leave you; I will never abandon you.”