2 Corinthians 1:9
But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.
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Job 40:14He is the beginning of the ways of God, who made him, he will apply his sword.
Psalms 44:5Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob.
Jeremiah 9:23Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches:
Ezekiel 33:13Yea, if I shall say to the just that he shall surely live, and he, trusting in his justice, commit iniquity: all his justices shall be forgotten, and in his iniquity, which he hath committed, in the same shall he die.
Luke 18:9And to some who trusted in themselves as just, and despised others, he spoke also this parable:
2 Corinthians 3:5Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 1:8-12
Paul's Sincerity and Affliction. ( a. d. 57.) 7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation. 8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: 10 Who delivered us from so great a… Read the whole commentary →