2 Corinthians 1:9
“But we had the sentence of death in our selues, that we should not trust in our selues, but in God which raiseth the dead.”
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2 Corinthians 1:9 Context
7And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall yee be also of the consolatiou. 8For we would not, brethren, haue you ignorant of our trouble which came to vs in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, aboue strength, in so much that we dispaired euen of life. 9But we had the sentence of death in our selues, that we should not trust in our selues, but in God which raiseth the dead. 10Who deliuered vs from so great a death, and doeth deliuer: in whom we trust that he will yet deliuer vs: 11You also helping together by prayer for vs, that for the gift bestowed vpon vs by the meanes of many persons, thankes may bee giuen by many on our behalfe.
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But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
- King James Version
indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;
- New American Standard Version (1995)