2 Corinthians 11:18

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho facing him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.”

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

They resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from Yahweh God.”

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

So then death works in us, but life in you.

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;