2 Corinthians 1:8 Cross References - Living_Oracles

⁸ Wherefore, brethren, we would not have you ignorant concerning our affliction, which happened to us in Asia; that we were exceedingly pressed above our strength, insomuch as we despaired even of life.

³² If, after the manner of men, I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what is the advantage to me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

⁹ For a great and effectual door is opened to me, yet there are many opposers.

²³ And there happened, about that time, no small tumult concerning that way. ²⁴ For a man whose name was Demetrius, a silversmith, by making silver shrines of Diana, procured no small gain to the artificers: ²⁵ whom he gathered together, with the workmen employed about the business, and said, Men, you know that our maintenance arises from this manufacture; ²⁶ and you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded great numbers of people, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, and has turned them aside, saying that they are not deities which are made with hands; ²⁷ so that there is danger, not only that this occupation of ours should be depreciated, but also that the people of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her grandeur destroyed; whom all Asia and the world worship. ²⁸ And hearing this, they were filled with rage; and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians! ²⁹ And the whole city was filled with confusion; and they rushed with one accord into the theater, dragging thither Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul's fellow-travelers. ³⁰ And when Paul would have gone in to the people, the disciples would not permit him. ³¹ And some, too, the principal officers of Asia, as they had a friendship for him, sent to him, and desired that he would not venture himself into the theater. ³² Some, therefore, were crying one thing, and some another; for the congregation was confused, and the greater part did not know for what they were come together. ³³ And they thrust forth forward Alexander, from amongst the multitude, the Jews urging him on. And Alexander, beckoning with his hand, would have made a defense to the people. ³⁴ But when they knew that he was a Jew, one voice arose from them all, crying out, for about the space of two hours, Great is Diana of the Ephesians! ³⁵ But the chancellor, having pacified the people, said Ephesians, what man is there that does not know that the city of the Ephesians is devoted to the great Diana, and to the image that fell down from Jupiter.

⁸ Now you are filled! now you are become rich! you have reigned without it! and I wish, indeed, you had reigned, that we also might reign with you.

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power might be of God, and not of us. ⁸ We are pressed on every side, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not utterly forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed. ¹⁰ At all times carrying about in the body, the putting to death of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. ¹¹ For we who live are always exposed to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. ¹² So that death works in us, but life in you.