2 Corinthians 4:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Heb 13:5 : 5 Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'
  • Job 5:17-19 : 17 Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not, 18 For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal. 19 In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.
  • Ps 9:10 : 10 They trust in Thee who do know Thy name, For Thou hast not forsaken Those seeking Thee, O Jehovah.
  • Ps 22:1 : 1 To the Overseer, on `The Hind of the Morning.' -- A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring?
  • Ps 37:24-25 : 24 When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand. 25 Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.
  • Ps 37:28 : 28 For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.
  • Ps 42:5 : 5 What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? Yea, art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him: The salvation of my countenance -- My God!
  • Ps 42:11 : 11 What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!
  • Prov 24:16 : 16 For seven `times' doth the righteous fall and rise, And the wicked stumble in evil.
  • Isa 43:2 : 2 When thou passest into waters, I `am' with thee, And into floods, they do not overflow thee, When thou goest into fire, thou art not burnt, And a flame doth not burn against thee.
  • Isa 62:4 : 4 It is not said of thee any more, `Forsaken!' And of thy land it is not said any more, `Desolate,' For to thee is cried, `My delight `is' in her,' And to thy land, `Married,' For Jehovah hath delighted in thee, And thy land is married.
  • Mic 7:8 : 8 Thou dost not rejoice over me, O mine enemy, When I have fallen, I have risen, When I sit in darkness Jehovah is a light to me.
  • John 15:20 : 20 `Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;
  • 2 Cor 7:6 : 6 but He who is comforting the cast-down -- God -- He did comfort us in the presence of Titus;
  • Job 22:29 : 29 For they have made low, And thou sayest, `Lift up.' And the bowed down of eyes he saveth.

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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;

    13being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become -- of all things an offscouring -- till now.

  • 2 Cor 6:9-10
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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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    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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    10at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested,

    11for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,

    12so that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.

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    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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    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;

  • 2 Thess 1:4-5
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    4so that we ourselves do glory in you in the assemblies of God, for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye bear;

    5a token of the righteous judgment of God, for your being counted worthy of the reign of God, for which also ye suffer,

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    1Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,

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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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    37they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins -- being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,

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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;

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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,

    13but, 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;

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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 --

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    19Swifter have been our pursuers, Than the eagles of the heavens, On the mountains they have burned `after' us, In the wilderness they have laid wait for us.

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    11the persecutions, the afflictions, that befel me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of all the Lord did deliver me,

    12and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,

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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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    4for the weapons of our warfare `are' not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,

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    3that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set,

    4for even when we were with you, we said to you beforehand, that we are about to suffer tribulation, as also it did come to pass, and ye have known `it';

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    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;

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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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    9whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.

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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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    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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    10wherefore 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;

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

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

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    16in my first defence no one stood with me, but all forsook me, (may it not be reckoned to them!)

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    10`Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

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    19But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.

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    22Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.