2 Corinthians 1:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

In god

General references

Psalm 56:3

Ecclesiastes 2:20

Isaiah 38:10

Bible References

In god

Yet we have the same spirit of faith as he had, who wrote in Scripture, “I believed, therefore I spoke.” We also believe, therefore we also speak,

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and He brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.

(as it is written [in Scripture], “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the sight of Him in whom he believed, that is, God who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.

For he considered [it reasonable to believe] that God was able to raise Isaac even from among the dead. [Indeed, in the sense that he was prepared to sacrifice Isaac in obedience to God] Abraham did receive him back [from the dead] figuratively speaking.

General references

When I am afraid,
I will put my trust and faith in You.

So I turned aside and let my heart despair over all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun.

I said, “In mid-life
I am to go through the gates of Sheol (the place of the dead),
I am to be summoned, deprived of the remainder of my years.”