2 Corinthians 1:21
Good News Translation
It is God himself who makes us, together with you, sure of our life in union with Christ; it is God himself who has set us apart,

New Revised Standard Version
But it is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us,

Contemporary English Version
And so God makes it possible for you and us to stand firmly together with Christ. God is also the one who chose us

New American Bible
But the one who gives us security with you in Christ and who anointed us is God;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ and that hath anointed us, is God:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ and that hath anointed us, is God:

stablisheth.

2 Corinthians 5:5 Now he that maketh us for this very thing is God, who hath given us the pledge of the Spirit,

Psalm 37:23,24 With the Lord shall the steps of a man be directed, and he shall like well his way. . . .

Psalm 87:5 Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

Psalm 89:4 Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation.

Isaiah 9:7 His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to establish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 49:8 Thus saith the Lord: In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and in the day of salvation I have helped thee: and I have preserved thee, and given thee to be a covenant of the people, that thou mightest raise up the earth, and possess the inheritances that were destroyed:

Isaiah 62:7 And give him no silence till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Romans 16:25 Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret from eternity;

Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned: abounding in him in thanksgiving.

1 Thessalonians 3:13 To confirm your hearts without blame, in holiness, before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints. Amen.

2 Thessalonians 2:8,17 And then that wicked one shall be revealed: whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: him . . .

2 Thessalonians 3:3 But God is faithful, who will strengthen and keep you from evil.

1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you.

anointed.

Psalm 45:7 Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Isaiah 59:21 This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit that is in thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

Isaiah 61:1 The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.

John 3:34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God doth not give the Spirit by measure.

Acts 10:38 Jesus of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh, but the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

1 John 2:20,27 But you have the unction from the Holy One and know all things. . . .

Revelation 1:6 And hath made us a kingdom, and priests to God and his Father. To him be glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold, fire tried, that thou mayest be made rich and mayest be clothed in white garments: and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear. And anoint thy eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Context
Paul's Change of Plans
20For all the promises of God are in him, It is. Therefore also by him, amen to God, unto our glory. 21Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ and that hath anointed us, is God: 22Who also hath sealed us and given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.…
Cross References
Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and prepareth a city by iniquity.

1 Corinthians 1:8
Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the days of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 13:9
Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.

1 John 2:20
But you have the unction from the Holy One and know all things.

1 John 2:27
And as for you, let the unction, which you have received from him abide in you. And you have no need that any man teach you: but as his unction teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie. And as it hath taught you, abide in him.

2 Corinthians 1:20
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