1Cor 4:10, 2Cor 11:30, 12:5-10, 13:8 | ESV | STEP | We are fools for Christ’s sake , but you are wise in Christ . We are weak , but you are strong . You are held in honor , but we in disrepute .

1 Corinthians 4:10

10 ^aWe are fools for Christ’s sake, but ^byou are wise in Christ. ^cWe are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

2 Corinthians 11:30

30 ^dIf I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

2 Corinthians 12:5-10

5 On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, ^eexcept of my weaknesses— 6 though if I should wish to boast, ^fI would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 7 So ^gto keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, ^{▼▼Or hears from me, even because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited} ⁱa thorn was given me in the flesh, ^ja messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 ^kThree times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9 But he said to me, ^l“My grace is sufficient for you, for ^mmy power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that ⁿthe power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 ^oFor the sake of Christ, then, ^pI am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For ^qwhen I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 13:8

8 For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.