2 Corinthians 4:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

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  • Heb 13:5 : 5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with what you have. For He has said, 'I will never leave you, nor forsake you.'
  • Job 5:17-19 : 17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty: 18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole. 19 He shall deliver you in six troubles: yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.
  • Ps 9:10 : 10 And those who know your name will put their trust in you; for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.
  • Ps 22:1 : 1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
  • Ps 37:24-25 : 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for the LORD upholds him with his hand. 25 I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants begging bread.
  • Ps 37:28 : 28 For the LORD loves justice, and does not forsake his saints; they are preserved forever, but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.
  • Ps 42:5 : 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance.
  • Ps 42:11 : 11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
  • Prov 24:16 : 16 For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
  • Isa 43:2 : 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; nor shall the flame ignite upon you.
  • Isa 62:4 : 4 You shall no longer be called Forsaken; nor shall your land any longer be called Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah: for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married.
  • Mic 7:8 : 8 Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light to me.
  • John 15:20 : 20 Remember the word I said to you, 'The servant is not greater than his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.
  • 2 Cor 7:6 : 6 Nevertheless God, who comforts those who are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
  • Job 22:29 : 29 When they cast down, then you shall say, 'There is lifting up;' and He shall save the humble person.

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

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    12And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it.

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    9As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

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    16For this reason we do not lose heart; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

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    10Always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also might be made manifest in our body.

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    8For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed beyond measure, above strength, so much that we despaired even of life.

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    35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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    4So that we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure:

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    4But in all things commending ourselves as the ministers of God: in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

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    16At my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. I pray that it may not be held against them.

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    22Yes, for Your sake we are killed all day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.