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2 Corinthians 11 27
toil and hardship, many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst, often without food, cold, and without clothing.
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Matthew 11:29
Take up my yoke and learn from me, because I am lowly and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
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2 Corinthians 12 7-2 Corinthians 12 10
especially because of the extraordinary revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to torment me so that I would not exalt myself.Concerning this, I pleaded with the Lord three times that it would leave me.But he said to me,“ My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and in difficulties, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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2 Corinthians 11 9
When I was present with you and in need, I did not burden anyone, since the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have kept myself, and will keep myself, from burdening you in any way.
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2 Corinthians 6 4-2 Corinthians 6 10
Instead, as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything: by great endurance, by afflictions, by hardships, by difficulties,by beatings, by imprisonments, by riots, by labors, by sleepless nights, by times of hunger,by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love,by the word of truth, by the power of God; through weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left,through glory and dishonor, through slander and good report; regarded as deceivers, yet true;as unknown, yet recognized; as dying, yet see— we live; as being disciplined, yet not killed;as grieving, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
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Jeremiah 31:19
After my return, I felt regret; After I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.”
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2 Corinthians 10 1
Now I, Paul, myself, appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ— I who am humble among you in person but bold toward you when absent.
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1 Corinthians 4 9-1 Corinthians 4 13
For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless;we labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the scum of the earth, like everyone’s garbage.
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Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desolate land, in a barren, howling wilderness; he surrounded him, cared for him, and protected him as the pupil of his eye.
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Isaiah 8:11
For this is what the LORD said to me with great power, to keep me from going the way of this people:
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2 Corinthians 10 10
For it is said,“ His letters are weighty and powerful, but his physical presence is weak and his public speaking amounts to nothing.”
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2 Corinthians 11 7
Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?
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Nehemiah 9:20
You sent your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst.
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Matthew 13:52
“ Therefore,” he said to them,“ every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom treasures new and old.”
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Ephesians 4:20-21
But that is not how you came to know Christ,assuming you heard about him and were taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus,