1 Corinthians 2:3 Cross References - Wesley

³ And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

¹⁸ And when they were come to him, he said to them, Ye know in what manner I have conversed among you, all the time from the first day I came into Asia, ¹⁹ Serving the Lord with all humility, and with tears, and trials which befell me through the ambushes of the Jews:

¹ And taking their journey through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

⁶ But not finding them, they dragged Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying aloud, These men, that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also: ⁷ Whom Jason hath privately received; and all these men act contrary to the decrees of Cesar, saying, that there is another king, one Jesus. ⁸ And they alarmed the multitude and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things. ⁹ However having taken security of Jason and of the rest, they let them go. ¹⁰ But the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night to Berea, who coming thither, went into the synagogue of the Jews. ¹¹ These were more ingenuous than those of Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, and daily searching the scriptures, whether those things were so? ¹² Therefore many of them believed, and of the Grecian women of considerable rank, and of the men not a few.

¹ After these things, Paul departing from Athens, came to Corinth.

⁶ But when they set themselves in opposition and blasphemed, he shook his raiment and said to them, Your blood is upon your own head; I am pure: from henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

¹² But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made an assault with one consent upon Paul, and brought him to the judgment-seat, Saying,

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake; but ye are wise in Christ: we are weak; but ye are strong: ye are honourable; but we are despised. ¹¹ Even to this present hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain abode, And labour, working with our own hands: ¹² being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: ¹³ Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and off-scouring of all things to this day.

¹ Therefore having this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not: But have renounced the hidden things of shame,

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us. ⁸ We are troubled on every side, yet not crushed; ⁹ perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; thrown down, but not destroyed; ¹⁰ Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. ¹¹ We who live are always delivered unto death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal body. ¹² So then death worketh in us, but life in you. Yet having the same spirit of faith,

¹⁶ Therefore we faint not, but even though the outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

⁴ in much patience, in afflictions,

⁵ For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side: from without were fightings, from within were fears.

¹ Now I Paul myself, who when present am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you, intreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ,

¹⁰ For his letters indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I burn not? ³⁰ Since I must glory, I will glory of the things that concern my infirmities.

⁵ Of such an one I will glory; but I will not glory of myself, unless in my infirmities. ⁶ For if I should resolve to boast, I should not be a fool; for I speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any one should think of me above what he seeth me, or heareth from me. ⁷ And lest I should be lifted up with the abundance of the revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, lest I should be lifted up. ⁸ Concerning this, I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. ⁹ But he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the strength of Christ may rest upon me. ¹⁰ Therefore I am well pleased in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

⁴ For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God: and we also are weak with him; but we shall live with him, by the power of God in you.

⁹ For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

¹³ And ye did not slight or disdain my temptation which was in the flesh, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ Where is then the blessedness ye spake of?