2 Corinthians 1:9

New English Translation

Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

Cross References

Job 40:14

Then I myself will acknowledge to you that your own right hand can save you.

Psalm 22:29

All of the thriving people of the earth will join the celebration and worship; all those who are descending into the grave will bow before him, including those who cannot preserve their lives.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, but the righteous have refuge even in the threat of death.

Proverbs 28:26

The one who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but the one who walks in wisdom will escape.

Isaiah 38:10

“I thought, ‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’

Ezekiel 33:13

Suppose I tell the righteous that he will certainly live, but he becomes confident in his righteousness and commits iniquity. None of his righteous deeds will be remembered; because of the iniquity he has committed he will die.

Luke 18:9

Jesus also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else.

Romans 8:36

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

2 Corinthians 1:10

He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,

2 Corinthians 1:8

For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living.

2 Corinthians 3:5

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

Hebrews 11:19

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.