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2 Corinthians 12:7

or because of these surpassingly great revelations.

So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

2 Corinthians 12:7 BSB
  1. a Some translators end the previous paragraph after verse 6, and begin verse 7 with So to keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations,

2 Corinthians 12:7 has 20 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 11 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Numbers 33:55 (21 votes) and Judges 2:3 (15 votes). 50 other verses point back to it. It links with 26 other books, from Genesis 32 to Revelation 12.

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Which verses does 2 Corinthians 12:7 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Numbers 33:5521 votes

    But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.

  2. Judges 2:315 votes

    So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”

  3. 2 Chronicles 32:25–268 votes

    But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem. Then Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart—he and the people of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the days of Hezekiah.

  4. Genesis 32:316 votes

    The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.

  5. 1 Corinthians 5:56 votes

    hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

  6. Galatians 4:136 votes

    You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.

  7. Daniel 5:205 votes

    But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.

  8. 1 Timothy 3:65 votes

    He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.

  9. Deuteronomy 8:144 votes

    then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

  10. 2 Chronicles 26:164 votes

    But when Uzziah became powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

  11. Job 2:74 votes
  12. Genesis 32:253 votes
  13. 2 Chronicles 32:313 votes
  14. Deuteronomy 17:202 votes
  15. Ezekiel 28:242 votes
  16. Luke 13:162 votes
  17. 1 Corinthians 4:112 votes
  18. 2 Corinthians 10:52 votes
  19. 2 Corinthians 11:202 votes
  20. Matthew 26:671 vote

Which verses point to 2 Corinthians 12:7?

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