2 Corinthians 4:8-9
2 Corinthians 4 · shown in the Douay-Rheims
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Read 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 in the NABRE onlineIn all things we suffer tribulation, but are not distressed; we are straitened, but are not destitute; we suffer persecution, but are not forsaken; we are cast down, but we perish not.
Reflection
Pressed but not crushed, struck down but not destroyed. Paul writes pairs of opposites to a church that may have felt only the first half. The second half is the promise; the first is the honest description.