2 Corinthians 1:8

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2 Corinthians 1:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.

7 And our hope for you is sure, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort.

8 We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.

9 Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,

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2 Corinthians 4:9

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2 Corinthians 4:10

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2 Corinthians 4:11

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2 Corinthians 4:12

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Acts 19:23

About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way.

Acts 19:24

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Acts 19:25

Demetrius assembled the craftsmen, along with the workmen in related trades. “Men,” he said, “you know that this business is our source of prosperity.

Acts 19:26

And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.

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Acts 19:28

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Acts 19:29

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Acts 19:30

Paul wanted to go before the assembly, but the disciples would not allow him.

Acts 19:31

Even some of Paul’s friends who were officials of the province of Asia sent word to him, begging him not to venture into the theatre.

Acts 19:32

Meanwhile the assembly was in turmoil. Some were shouting one thing and some another, and most of them did not even know why they were there.

Acts 19:33

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Acts 19:34

But when they realized that he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison for about two hours: “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Acts 19:35

Finally the city clerk quieted the crowd and declared, “Men of Ephesus, doesn’t everyone know that the city of Ephesus is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven?

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