Verš 2
For we renounce dishonorable and hidden acts, not walking by craftiness, nor by adulterating the Word of God. Instead, by the manifestation of truth, we commend ourselves to the conscience of each man before God.
2Kor 2:17 - For we are not like many others, adulterating the Word of God. 665 But instead, we speak with sincerity: from God, before God, and in Christ.
2Kor 6:4 - But in all things, let us exhibit ourselves as ministers of God with great patience: through tribulation, difficulties, and distress;
Verš 3
But if our Gospel is in some way hidden, it is hidden to those who are perishing.
2Kor 2:15 - For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ for God, both with those who are being saved and with those who are perishing.
2Sol 2:10 - and with every seduction of iniquity, toward those who are perishing because they have not accepted the love of truth, so that they may be saved. For this reason, God will send to them works of deception, so that they may believe in lies,
Verš 4
As for them, the god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, would not shine in them.
Iz 6:10 - Blind the heart of this people. Make their ears heavy and close their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and then I would heal them.”
Jn 12:40 - “He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, so that they may not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and be converted: and then I would heal them.”
Jn 14:9 - Jesus said to him: “Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me? Philip, whoever sees me, also sees the Father. How can you say, ‘Reveal the Father to us?’
Flp 2:6 - who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be seized.
Kol 1:15 - He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature.
Heb 1:3 - And since the Son is the brightness of his glory, and the figure of his substance, and is carrying all things by the Word of his virtue, thereby accomplishing a purging of sins, he sits at the right hand of Majesty on high.
Verš 6
For God, who told the light to shine out of darkness, has shined a light into our hearts, to illuminate the knowledge of the splendor of God, in the person of Christ Jesus.
Gn 1:3 - And God said, “Let there be light.” And light became.
2Pt 1:19 - And so, we have an even firmer prophetic word, to which you would do well to listen, as to a light shining within a dark place, until the day dawns, and the daystar rises, in your hearts.
Verš 7
But we hold this treasure in earthen vessels, so that what is sublime may be of the power of God, and not of us.
2Kor 5:1 - For we know that, when our earthly house of this habitation is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.
1Kor 2:5 - so that your faith would not be based on the wisdom of men, but on the virtue of God.
Verš 10
We ever carry around the mortification of Jesus in our bodies, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
Rim 8:17 - But if we are sons, then we are also heirs: certainly heirs of God, but also co-heirs with Christ, yet in such a way that, if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him.
Gal 6:17 - Concerning other matters, let no one trouble me. For I carry the stigmata of the Lord Jesus in my body.
Flp 3:10 - So shall I know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his Passion, having been fashioned according to his death,
2Tim 2:11 - It is a faithful saying: that if we have died with him, we will also live with him.
1Pt 4:13 - But instead, commune in the Passion of Christ, and be glad that, when his glory will be revealed, you too may rejoice with exultation.
Verš 11
For we who live are ever handed over unto death for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our mortal flesh.
Ž 44:22 -
Mt 5:11 - Blessed are you when they have slandered you, and persecuted you, and spoken all kinds of evil against you, falsely, for my sake:
Rim 8:36 - For it is as it has been written: “For your sake, we are being put to death all day long. We are being treated like sheep for the slaughter.”
1Kor 4:9 - For I think that God has presented us as the last Apostles, as those destined for death. For we have been made into a spectacle for the world, and for Angels, and for men.
1Kor 15:49 - And so, just as we have carried the image of what is earthly, let us also carry the image of what is heavenly.
Kol 3:4 - When Christ, your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Verš 13
But we have the same Spirit of faith. And just as it is written, “I believed, and for that reason I spoke,” so we also believe, and for that reason, we also speak.
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Verš 14
For we know that the One who raised up Jesus will raise us up also with Jesus and will place us with you.
Rim 8:11 - But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead lives within you, then he who raised up Jesus Christ from the dead shall also enliven your mortal bodies, by means of his Spirit living within you.
1Kor 6:14 - Truly, God has raised up the Lord, and he will raise us up by his power.
Verš 15
Thus, all is for you, so that grace, abounding through many in thanksgiving, may abound to the glory of God.
2Kor 1:11 - And you are assisting, with your prayers for us, so that from many persons, by that which is a gift in us, thanks may be given through many persons, because of us.
Verš 17
For though our tribulation is, at the present time, brief and light, it accomplishes in us the weight of a sublime eternal glory, beyond measure.
Ž 30:5 - You will lead me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me. For you are my protector.
Mt 5:12 - be glad and exult, for your reward in heaven is plentiful. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Rim 8:18 - For I consider that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with that future glory which shall be revealed in us.
1Jn 3:2 - Most beloved, we are now the sons of God. But what we shall be then has not yet appeared. We know that when he does appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
