2 Corinthians 4:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair;

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  • 2 Cor 7:5 : 5 for also we, having come to Macedonia, no relaxation hath our flesh had, but on every side we are in tribulation, without `are' fightings, within -- fears;
  • Ps 56:2-3 : 2 Mine enemies have swallowed up all the day, For many `are' fighting against me, O most High, 3 The day I am afraid I am confident toward Thee.
  • Rom 8:35-37 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 (according as it hath been written -- `For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,') 37 but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us;
  • 2 Cor 12:10 : 10 wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;
  • Jas 1:2-4 : 2 All joy count `it', my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; 3 knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance, 4 and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;
  • 1 Pet 1:6-7 : 6 in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials, 7 that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
  • 1 Pet 4:12-14 : 12 Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you, 13 but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice -- exulting; 14 if ye be reproached in the name of Christ -- happy `are ye', because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified;
  • Rom 5:3-5 : 3 And not only `so', but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance; 4 and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope; 5 and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.
  • John 14:18 : 18 `I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;
  • 1 Sam 28:15 : 15 And Samuel saith unto Saul, `Why hast thou troubled me, to bring me up?' And Saul saith, `I have great distress, and the Philistines are fighting against me, God hath turned aside from me, and hath not answered me any more, either by the hand of the prophets, or by dreams; and I call for thee to let me know what I do.'
  • 1 Sam 30:6 : 6 and David hath great distress, for the people have said to stone him, for the soul of all the people hath been bitter, each for his sons and for his daughters; and David doth strengthen himself in Jehovah his God.
  • Job 2:9-9 : 9 And his wife saith to him, `Still thou art keeping hold on thine integrity: bless God and die.' 10 And he saith unto her, `As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.
  • Ps 37:33 : 33 Jehovah doth not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him in his being judged.
  • Prov 14:26 : 26 In the fear of Jehovah `is' strong confidence, And to His sons there is a refuge.
  • Prov 18:10 : 10 A tower of strength `is' the name of Jehovah, Into it the righteous runneth, and is set on high.
  • 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 No temptation hath taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear `it'.
  • 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above `our' power, so that we despaired even of life; 9 but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead, 10 who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;
  • 2 Cor 4:16-17 : 16 wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day; 17 for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --
  • 2 Cor 6:4 : 4 but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,
  • 2 Cor 11:23-30 : 23 ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times; 24 from Jews five times forty `stripes' save one I did receive; 25 thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed; 26 journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren; 27 in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness; 28 apart from the things without -- the crowding upon me that is daily -- the care of all the assemblies. 29 Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired; 30 if to boast it behoveth `me', of the things of my infirmity I will boast;

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    7And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;

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    4who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

    5because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;

    6and whether we be in tribulation, `it is' for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, `it is' for your comfort and salvation;

    7and our hope `is' stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings -- so also of the comfort.

    8For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above `our' power, so that we despaired even of life;

    9but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,

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    16wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;

    17for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --

    18we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen `are' temporary, but the things not seen `are' age-during.

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    4great `is' my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,

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    10we `are' fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we `are' ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;

    11unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about,

    12and labour, working with `our' own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

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    4but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

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    7because of this we were comforted, brethren, over you, in all our tribulation and necessity, through your faith,

    8because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;

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

    36(according as it hath been written -- `For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')

    37but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us;

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    9as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death;

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    3And not only `so', but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

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    6having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, --

    7for through faith we walk, not through sight --

    8we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

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    13for whether we were beside ourselves, `it was' to God; whether we be of sound mind -- `it is' to you,

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    2but having both suffered before, and having been injuriously treated (as ye have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the good news of God in much conflict,

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    6in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

  • 1 Thess 2:4
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    4but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

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    12Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

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    28and not terrified in anything by those opposing, which to them indeed is a token of destruction, and to you of salvation, and that from God;

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    8therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,

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    5For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.

  • 2 Thess 3:9
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    9not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

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    24not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.

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    4and such trust we have through the Christ toward God,

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    9in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;

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    15Looking for peace -- and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.

  • Rom 8:22
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    22for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.