Psalm 71:7
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7 I have been like a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.(A)
Isaiah 8:18
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18 See, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.(A)
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1 Corinthians 4:9
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9 For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to humans.(A)
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2 Corinthians 6:8-10
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8 in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors and yet are true, 9 as unknown and yet are well known, as dying and look—we are alive, as punished and yet not killed,(A) 10 as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing everything.
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Acts 4:13
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13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and recognized them as companions of Jesus.(A)
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Jeremiah 16:19
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19 O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
my refuge in the day of trouble,
to you shall the nations come
from the ends of the earth and say:
“Our ancestors have inherited nothing but lies,
worthless things in which there is no profit.(A)
Luke 2:34
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34 Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, “This child is destined for the falling and the rising of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be opposed(A)
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Zechariah 3:6
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6 Then the angel of the Lord warned Joshua, saying
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Psalm 142:4-5
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4 Look on my right hand and see:
there is no one who takes notice of me;
no refuge remains to me;
no one cares for me.(A)
5 I cry to you, O Lord;
I say, “You are my refuge,
my portion in the land of the living.”(B)
Psalm 62:7
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7 On God rests my deliverance and my honor;
my mighty rock, my refuge is in God.(A)
Psalm 61:3
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3 for you are my refuge,
a strong tower against the enemy.(A)
2 Corinthians 4:8-12
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8 We are afflicted in every way but not crushed, perplexed but not driven to despair, 9 persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed, 10 always carrying around in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies.(A) 11 For we who are living are always being handed over to death for Jesus’s sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal flesh. 12 So death is at work in us but life in you.
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