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 arrogant obstacle that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to make it obey Christ.

For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.

be sure you do not feel self-important and forget the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery,

Then he will not exalt himself above his fellow citizens or turn from the commandments to the right or left, and he and his descendants will enjoy many years ruling over his kingdom in Israel.

But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. He disobeyed the Lord his God. He entered the Lord's temple to offer incense on the incense altar.

But Hezekiah was ungrateful; he had a proud attitude, provoking God to be angry at him, as well as Judah and Jerusalem.

And when his mind became arrogant and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him.

He must not be a recent convert or he may become arrogant and fall into the punishment that the devil will exact.

The abundance

It is necessary to go on boasting. Though it is not profitable, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

A thorn

When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob's hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

At that time I also warned you, 'If you disobey, I will not drive out the Canaanites before you. They will ensnare you and their gods will lure you away.'"

"'No longer will Israel suffer from the sharp briers or painful thorns of all who surround and scorn them. Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.

But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,

The messenger

So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and he afflicted Job with a malignant ulcer from the sole of his feet to the top of his head.

Then shouldn't this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?"

turn this man 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 spat in his face and struck him with their fists. And some slapped him,

To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads.

General references

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling.