2 Corinthians 12:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

Lest

The abundance

2 Corinthians 12:1

A thorn

The messenger

Job 2:7

Luke 13:16

1 Corinthians 5:5

To buffet

Matthew 26:67

1 Corinthians 4:11

General references

1 Corinthians 2:3

Bible References

Lest

and every high-minded thing that is raised up against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive to obey Christ.

In fact, you put up with it if someone enslaves you, if someone devours you, if someone captures you, if someone dominates you, or if someone hits you in the face.

be careful that your heart doesn’t become proud and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, he will not turn from this command to the right or the left, and he and his sons will continue ruling many years over Israel.

But when he became strong, he grew arrogant and it led to his own destruction. He acted unfaithfully against the Lord his God by going into the Lord’s sanctuary to burn incense on the incense altar.

However, because his heart was proud, Hezekiah didn’t respond according to the benefit that had come to him. So there was wrath on him, Judah, and Jerusalem.

But when his heart was exalted and his spirit became arrogant, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken from him.

He must not be a new convert, or he might become conceited and fall into the condemnation of the Devil.

The abundance

Boasting is necessary. It is not profitable, but I will move on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

A thorn

When the man saw that He could not defeat him, He struck Jacob’s hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip.

Therefore, I now say: I will not drive out these people before you. They will be thorns

in your sides, and their gods will be a trap for you.”

“The house of Israel will no longer be hurt by prickly briers or painful thorns from all their neighbors who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

you know that previously I preached the gospel to you because of a physical illness.

The messenger

So Satan left the Lord’s presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.

Satan has bound this woman, a daughter of Abraham, for 18 years—shouldn’t she be untied from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

turn that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.

To buffet

Then they spit in His face and beat Him; others slapped Him

Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless;

General references

I came to you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.