2 CORINTHIANS 1:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:”
Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead — the sentence of death (apokrisma thanatou) was pedagogical, not accidental. God permits crushing pressure to wean us from self-reliance and cultivate dependence on divine power (the God who raises the dead — see Rom 4:17). This is not suffering for its own sake but suffering as the training ground of faith.
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