2 Corinthians 12:7

New American Bible - revised edition

because of the abundance of the revelations. Therefore, that I might not become too elated, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan, to beat me, to keep me from being too elated.

Cross References

Genesis 32:25

Jacob was left there alone. Then a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.

Genesis 32:31

Jacob named the place Peniel, “because I have seen God face to face,” he said, “yet my life has been spared.”

2 Chronicles 26:16

But after he had become strong, he became arrogant to his own destruction and acted treacherously with the Lord, his God. He entered the temple of the Lord to make an offering on the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 32:31

Nevertheless, in respect to the ambassadors of the Babylonian officials who were sent to him to investigate the sign that had occurred in the land, God abandoned him as a test, to know all that was in his heart.

Job 2:6

And the Lord said to the satan, “He is in your power; only spare his life.” The Second Trial.

Job 2:7

So the satan went forth from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with severe boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. Job’s Reaction.

Ezekiel 28:24

No longer will there be a thorn that tears or a brier that scratches for the house of Israel From the surrounding neighbors who despise them; thus they shall know that I am the Lord.

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart became proud and his spirit hardened by insolence, he was put down from his royal throne and deprived of his glory;

Hosea 2:6

I will have no pity on her children, for they are children of prostitution.

Numbers 33:55

But if you do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land before you, those whom you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land where you live,

Matthew 26:67

Then they spat in his face and struck him, while some slapped him,

Matthew 4:10

At this, Jesus said to him, “Get away, Satan! It is written: ‘The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.’”

Luke 13:16

This daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now, ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day from this bondage?”

1 Corinthians 4:11

To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clad and roughly treated, we wander about homeless

1 Corinthians 5:5

you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 10:10

For someone will say, “His letters are severe and forceful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.”

2 Corinthians 10:5

and every pretension raising itself against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive in obedience to Christ,

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you put up with it if someone enslaves you, or devours you, or gets the better of you, or puts on airs, or slaps you in the face.

2 Corinthians 12:1

I must boast; not that it is profitable, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Galatians 4:13

you know that it was because of a physical illness that I originally preached the gospel to you,

Deuteronomy 17:20

so that he does not exalt himself over his kindred or turn aside from this commandment to the right or to the left, and so that he and his descendants may reign long in Israel.

Deuteronomy 8:14

you then become haughty of heart and forget the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that house of slavery;

1 Timothy 3:6

He should not be a recent convert, so that he may not become conceited and thus incur the devil’s punishment.

Judges 2:3

For I also said, I will not clear them out of your way; they will become traps for you, and their gods a snare for you.