2 Corinthians 4:8(Be Blessed coz YOU ARE BIG). New International Version We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; New Living Translation We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. English Standard Version We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; New American Standard Bible we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; King James Bible We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Holman Christian Standard Bible We are pressured in every way but not crushed; we are perplexed but not in despair; International Standard Version In every way were troubled but not crushed, frustrated but not in despair, NET Bible We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair; Aramaic Bible in Plain English For we are squeezed in all things, but we are not strangled; we are harassed, but we are not condemned. GODS WORD® Translation In every way were troubled, but we arent crushed by our troubles. Were frustrated, but we dont give up. Jubilee Bible 2000 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are unsure of our lives, but not in despair; King James 2000 Bible We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; American King James Version We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; American Standard Version we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; Douay-Rheims Bible In all things we suffer tribulation, but are not distressed; we are straitened, but are not destitute; Darby Bible Translation every way afflicted, but not straitened; seeing no apparent issue, but our way not entirely shut up; English Revised Version we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; Websters Bible Translation We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Weymouth New Testament We are hard pressed, yet never in absolute distress; perplexed, yet never utterly baffled; World English Bible We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; Youngs Literal Translation on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair; Parallel Commentaries Matthew Henrys Concise Commentary 4:8-12 The apostles were great sufferers, yet they met with wonderful support. Believers may be forsaken of their friends, as well as persecuted by enemies; but their God will never leave them nor forsake them. There may be fears within, as well as fightings without; yet we are not destroyed. The apostle speaks of their sufferings as a counterpart of the sufferings of Christ, that people might see the power of Christs resurrection, and of grace in and from the living Jesus. In comparison with them, other Christians were, even at that time, in prosperous circumstances. Pulpit Commentary Verse 8. - Troubled; afflicted, as in 2 Corinthians 1:4. On every side; in everything. Distressed; rather, driven to straits. Perplexed, but not in despair. In the original is a beautiful paronomasia, which might, perhaps, be represented in English by pressed, but not oppressed. Literally the words mean, being at a loss, but not utterly at a loss. In the special anguish of trial of which he spoke in 2 Corinthians 1:8 (comp. 2 Corinthians 7:5), he was indeed for a time utterly at a loss, reduced to utter despair; but in the normal conditions which he here describes he always, as it were, saw some outlet out of his worst perplexities. Gills Exposition of the Entire Bible We are troubled on every side,.... Or afflicted; , either in every place, wherever we are, into whatsoever country, city, or town we enter, we are sure to meet with trouble, of one sort or another; for wherever we be, we are in the world, in which we must expect tribulation: or always, every day and hour we live, as in 2 Corinthians 4:10 we are never free from one trial or another: or by everyone; by all sorts of persons, good and bad, professors and profane, open persecutors and false brethren; yea, some of the dear children of God, weak believers, give us trouble: or with every sort of trouble, inward and outward; trouble from the world, the flesh and the devil: yet not distressed; so as to have no hope, or see no way of escape; so as to have no manner of comfort, or manifestations of the love of God; or so as to be straitened in our own souls; for notwithstanding all our troubles, we have freedom at the throne of grace, and in our ministry; we can go with liberty to God, and preach the Gospel boldly to you: we are perplexed; and sometimes know not what to do, which way to take, what course to steer, or how we shall be relieved and supplied; we are sometimes at the utmost loss about things temporal, how we shall be provided for with food and raiment; nor are we without our perplexing thoughts, doubts, and fears, about spiritual affairs: but not in despair; of the Lords appearing and working salvation, both in a temporal and spiritual sense.
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