2 Corinthians 1:3-11
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
8 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. 9 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. 10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, 11 as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.


Is it in the Bible?
“Eat, drink and be merry.”
Yes or No?

Yes.
And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’ (Luke 12:19)
See also Ecclesiastes 8:15

Is it in the Bible?
“When God closes a door, he opens a window.”
Yes or No?

No.
This inspiring quite is a variation from a line in the 1965 Julie Andrews film “The Sound of Music.”

Is it in the Bible?
“If God is for us, who can be against us?”
Yes or No?

Yes.
“What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” can be found in Romans 8:31.

Is it in the Bible?
“Cleanliness is next to godliness.”
Yes or No?

No.
Quote from John Wesley – cofounder of the Methodist Church

Is it in the Bible?
“Honor thy father and mother.”
Yes or No?

Yes.
The often-quoted commandment is referenced several times in both the Old and New Testament. It first appears in Exodus 20:12.

Is it in the Bible?
“God works in mysterious ways.”
Yes or No?

No.
Quote from a hymn by William Cowper.

Is it in the Bible?
“As a dog returns to his own vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.”
Yes or No?

Yes.
Proverbs 26:11

Is it in the Bible?
“To thine own self be true.”
Yes or No?

No.
Quote from King Claudius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Is it in the Bible?
“That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.”
Yes or No?

No.
Friedrich Nietzsche – a German philosopher
And American philosopher Kelly Clarkston


Acts 5:41
The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.

The people God uses seem to have remarkably little concern about how much suffering they would do as long as they had a cause worth suffering for and a Savior worth suffering with.

1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

2 Corinthians 1:8-9
We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death.

2 Corinthians 1:10
But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

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