Quotes from 2 Corinthians

21 notable lines from Paul · c. 56

My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

2 Corinthians 12:9 (KJV)

Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.

  1. There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.

    2 Corinthians 12:7 (KJV)

  2. We walk by faith, not by sight.

    2 Corinthians 5:7 (KJV)

  3. The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

    2 Corinthians 3:6 (KJV)

  4. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

    2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)

  5. God loveth a cheerful giver.

    2 Corinthians 9:7 (KJV)

  6. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

    2 Corinthians 4:7 (KJV)

  7. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

    2 Corinthians 3:17 (KJV)

  8. When I am weak, then am I strong.

    2 Corinthians 12:10 (KJV)

  9. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.

    2 Corinthians 6:14 (KJV)

  10. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

    2 Corinthians 6:2 (KJV)

  11. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

    2 Corinthians 13:14 (KJV)

  12. He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

    2 Corinthians 9:6 (KJV)

  13. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

    2 Corinthians 4:17 (KJV)

  14. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair.

    2 Corinthians 4:8 (KJV)

  15. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

    2 Corinthians 4:18 (KJV)

  16. For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

    2 Corinthians 8:9 (KJV)

  17. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds.

    2 Corinthians 10:4 (KJV)

  18. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

    2 Corinthians 7:10 (KJV)

  19. Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

    2 Corinthians 9:15 (KJV)

  20. Our sufficiency is of God.

    2 Corinthians 3:5 (KJV)