Treasury of Scripture
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.
2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God...
2 Corinthians 11:20 For you suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself...
Deuteronomy 8:14 Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt...
Deuteronomy 17:20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brothers, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left...
2 Chronicles 26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God...
2 Chronicles 32:25,26,31 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on him...
Daniel 5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne...
1 Timothy 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
the abundance.
2 Corinthians 12:1-4 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord...
a thorn.
Genesis 32:25,31 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint...
Judges 2:3 Why I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides...
Ezekiel 28:24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them...
Galatians 4:13 You know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first.
the messenger.
Job 2:7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.
Luke 13:16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, see, these eighteen years...
1 Corinthians 5:5 To deliver such an one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
to buffet.
Matthew 26:67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
1 Corinthians 4:11 Even to this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;
Strong's Concordance
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. Topical Bible
Abundance Adversary Agony Angel Blow Buffet Conceited Dealing Elated Exalted Exalting Exceeding Excessively Flesh Grandeur Greatness Harass Impalement Judging Lest Lifted Measure Messenger Me-to Myself Order Over-elated Overmuch Pain Reason Revelations Satan Satan's Stupendous Surpassing Surpassingly Thorn TormentResources
2 Corinthians Chapter 12 Verse 7
Alphabetical: a because becoming conceited exalting flesh for from given great greatness in keep me messenger me-to my myself of reason revelations Satan surpassing surpassingly the there these this thorn To torment was
NT Letters: 2 Corinthians 12:7 By reason of the exceeding greatness (2 Cor. 2C iiC 2Cor ii cor iicor)