Bible Cross References
how to be
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
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For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men appointed to death; for we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
10
We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are despised!
11
Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are naked, and beaten, and homeless.
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And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
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being defamed, we encourage; we have become as the sweepings of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
2 Corinthians 6:4-10
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but in everything commending ourselves as ministers of God: in much endurance, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses,
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in stripes, in imprisonments, in disturbances, in labors, in sleepless nights, in fastings;
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in purity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
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through the word of truth, through the power of God, through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left hand,
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by honor and dishonor, by ill repute and good repute; as deceivers, and yet true;
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as being unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as being disciplined, and not being put to death;
10
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 10:1
Now I, Paul, myself appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who face to face [am] lowly among you, but when I am away am bold toward you.
2 Corinthians 10:10
"For his letters," they say, "are severe and boisterous, but his bodily presence [is] feeble, and his speech amounts to nothing."
2 Corinthians 11:7
Or did I commit sin in humbling myself in order that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and hardship, in sleepless nights often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness--
2 Corinthians 12:7-10
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And lest I exalt myself above measure by the excellence of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan, that it might beat me, lest I exalt myself above measure.
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Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
9
And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10
Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
I am
Deuteronomy 32:10
He maintained him in the wilderness, in burning thirst and a dry land: He led him about and instructed him, and kept him as the apple of [His] eye.
Nehemiah 9:20
And You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, and You did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, and gave them water in their thirst.
Isaiah 8:11
Thus says the Lord, With a strong hand they revolt from the course of the way of this people, saying,
Jeremiah 31:19
For after my captivity I repented, and after I knew, I groaned for the day of shame, and showed You that I bore reproach from my youth.
Matthew 11:29
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 13:52
Then He said to them, "Therefore every scribe having become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure new and old [things]."
Ephesians 4:20
But you did not thus learn Christ,
Ephesians 4:21
if indeed you have heard Him and were instructed by Him, just as the truth is in Jesus: