2 Corinthians 12:10 Cross References - Riverside

¹⁰ Therefore I rejoice in weaknesses, in rough treatment, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

²² "Blessed are you when men hate you and when they shut you out and reproach you and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of Man!

²¹ But all these things they will do to you because of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

⁴¹ but they went away from before the Council rejoicing because they were thought worthy to be put to shame for the Name.

³ Not only so, but we also exult in trials, knowing that trial develops endurance,

³⁵ Who shall separate us from Christ's love? Shall trial or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ (As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day. We are counted as sheep for slaughter.") ³⁷ On the contrary, in all these we more than conquer through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor archangels, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹ nor height nor depth nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you have glory, but we are despised.

⁴ who encourages us in every distress so that we may be able to encourage those who are in every distress by the encouragement by which we ourselves have been encouraged by God.

⁵ For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

⁸ in every way distressed, but not reduced to straits, perplexed, but not in despair, ⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken, cast down, but not destroyed, ¹⁰ always bearing about in our bodies the death of Jesus that the life also of Jesus may be manifest in our bodies. ¹¹ For we, though living, are always delivered up to death for Jesus' sake, that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

¹⁷ For our momentary and light distress is working out for us a far surpassing and eternal weight of glory

¹⁵ and he died for all that the living may no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and was raised again.

⁴ but in everything we commend ourselves as God's servants in great patience, in distresses, in necessities, in hardships,

⁴ Great is my frankness in speaking to you; great is my boasting of you; I am filled with encouragement, running over with joy at every distress of ours.

¹⁸ For it is not he who commends himself that is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

²³ Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind) I superlatively — in labors beyond measure, in prisons beyond measure, in floggings excessively, in deaths often. ²⁴ From Jews five times I received forty stripes less one, ²⁵ three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was ship-wrecked, a night and day I have been in the deep; ²⁶ in journeys often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the open country, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren; ²⁷ in toil and labor, in many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. ²⁸ Aside, from other things there is that which weighs on me daily, anxiety for all the churches. ²⁹ Who is weak and I am not weak? Who stumbles and I am not burning? ³⁰ If there must be boasting, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

⁹ But he has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you; for power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly then will I boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may abide upon me.

⁴ He was crucified in weakness, but he is living by the power of God. And we are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God for you.

⁹ We rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. This we are praying for, your all-round character.

¹⁰ To conclude: Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

²⁹ because it has been graciously allowed you not only to believe in Christ but also to suffer for his sake,

¹⁷ But if I am poured out as a libation on your sacrificial offering of faith, I rejoice and share the joy of you all. ¹⁸ In the same way you must rejoice and share my joy.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in what I suffer for your sake, and in my turn am filling up in my flesh what was lacking in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

⁴ so that we ourselves glory in you among the churches of God because of your endurance and faith in all of your persecutions and in the distresses you are bearing.

² Think it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into all sorts of trials,

⁶ In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you are sorrowful in trials of many kinds, ⁷ so that your tested faith, much more precious than gold that perishes though tested by fire, may be found to your praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed,

¹³ But rejoice since to this extent you are sharing the sufferings of Christ, that when his glory is revealed you may rejoice and exult. ¹⁴ If you are reproached for the name of Christ you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

³ You have endurance and you have borne for the sake of my name and you have not been discouraged.