2 Corinthians

But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.