2 Corinthians 12:10 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁰ I feel therefore a complacency in weaknesses, in reproaches, in difficulties, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

²² Happy are you, when men will hate you; even when they will discard and reproach you, and expose your name as infamous on the account of the son of man;

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

⁴¹ Thereupon they went from the presence of the Sanhedrim, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

³ And not only so, but we boast also in our tribulations, as we know that tribulation operateth to produce patience;

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ [As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day long, And accounted as sheep for slaughter" ³⁷ We indeed in all these things are more than conquerors by means of him who hath loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other created being shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁰ We are fools on the account of Christ; but you are prudent in Christ: We are weak; but you are strong: you are honourable; but we are despised:

⁴ who comforteth us in all our affliction, to the end that we may be able to comfort them who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves have been comforted by God.

⁵ For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake.

⁸ we are pressed on every side, but not utterly crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not quite forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; ¹⁰ always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may be manifested in this body of ours. ¹¹ For we, who are living, are continually delivered up to death on the account of Jesus, that the life of Jesus may be manifested in this frail flesh of ours.

¹⁷ For this momentary and light affliction of ours is working out for us an eternal weight of glory, great beyond expression,

¹⁵ and that he died for all to the end that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and was raised up for them.

⁴ but approving ourselves in every respect as ministers of God, by great constancy in afflictions, in distresses, in straits,

⁴ I use great freedom of speech to you. I have great boasting with regard to you. I am filled with comfort. I superabound with joy in all our affliction.

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

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? [I speak with an excess of folly] I am more so; more abundant in labours; far surpassing in stripes; more frequent in imprisonments, often in deaths. ²⁴ Of the Jews I five times received forty stripes save one. ²⁵ Thrice I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Thrice I have been shipwrecked. In the deep I spent a whole night and day. ²⁶ On journeys I have been frequently in dangers from rivers; in dangers from robbers; in dangers from my country men; in dangers from foreign nations; in dangers in cities; in dangers in a wilderness; in dangers at sea; in dangers among false brethren: ²⁷ In toil and fatigue, in watchings many a time, with hunger and thirst; in fastings many a time, with cold and nakedness. ²⁸ Beside these things from without, I have this disturbance daily crowding upon me; the anxious care of all the congregations. ²⁹ Who is weak and I not weak? Who is offended and I not inflamed? ³⁰ If I must boast, let me boast of things regarding my weakness.

⁹ Whereupon he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is perfected in weakness. Therefore I will with the greatest pleasure, rather boast of my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may shelter me.

⁴ For though from weakness he was crucified, yet by the power of God he is alive, therefore though we are weak in him, yet by the power of God we will be alive with him for you.

⁹ for we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And for this also we pray, namely the restoration of you to perfect order.

¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

²⁹ because this hath been granted to you for Christ, not only to believe in him but also to suffer for him and you are engaged in the same conflict as that in which you saw me and now hear that I am engaged,

¹⁷ but can if I am even poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and service of your belief, rejoice and congratulate with you all. ¹⁸ For the same cause then rejoice ye also and congratulate with me.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in these sufferings of mine for you, and am in my turn making up in my flesh the remainders of the sufferings of the Christ, for his body, namely, the congregation

⁴ So that we ourselves boast of you in the congregations of God, on account of your perseverance and belief, in all your persecutions. Indeed by these afflictions which you endure

² Count it, my brethren, all joy when you fall into divers trials,

⁶ in whom you exult with joy though you are now for a little while, if it be necessary, distressed with divers trials; ⁷ in order that your faith, which hath stood the test and is much more precious than gold which is of a perishable nature though tried by fire, may be found praise worthy, and honourable, and glorious, at the manifestation of Jesus Christ,

¹³ but inasmuch as you partake of the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice; that at the manifestation of his glory you may indeed rejoice with exceeding great joy. 14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ you are happy; because the spirit of the glory, even the spirit of God resteth on you. On their part indeed it is reviled, but on your part it is glorified.

³ and hast borne and dost exercise patience, and hast laboured for my name's sake, and hast not fainted.