2 Corinthians 12:7

or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

Cross References (20)

  • Numbers 33:55 (20)

    But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your

  • Judges 2:3 (14)

    So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods w

  • 2 Chronicles 32:25–26 (8)

    But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon J

  • Galatians 4:13 (6)

    You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.

  • Genesis 32:31 (6)

    The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.

  • Daniel 5:20 (5)

    But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his

  • 1 Corinthians 5:5 (5)

    hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

  • Job 2:7 (4)

    So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the c

  • 2 Chronicles 26:16 (4)

    But when Uzziah became powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he

  • 1 Timothy 3:6 (4)

    He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.

  • Deuteronomy 8:14 (4)

    then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out o

  • Genesis 32:25 (3)

    When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestl

  • Ezekiel 28:24 (2)

    For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them wit

  • 2 Corinthians 10:5 (2)

    We demolish arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to ma

  • 1 Corinthians 4:11 (2)

    To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.

  • 2 Chronicles 32:31 (2)

    And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the l

  • 2 Corinthians 11:20 (2)

    In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or str

  • Deuteronomy 17:20 (2)

    Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, and he will not turn aside from the commandment, to the right o

  • Luke 13:16 (1)

    Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondag

  • Matthew 26:67 (1)

    Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him