2 Corinthians 12:7-8
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So f to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, g a thorn was given me in the flesh, h a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
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i Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.
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Cross References
2 Corinthians 10:10
For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.
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Cross References
Numbers 33:55
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.
Ezekiel 28:24
And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.
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Cross References
Luke 13:16
And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?
1 Corinthians 5:5
You are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
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Cross References
Matthew 26:44
So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again.
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