2 Corinthians 11:29-30
29 aWho is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?30 bIf I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
2 Corinthians 12:5-10
5On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, cexcept of my weaknesses— 6though if I should wish to boast, dI 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. 7So eto 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
ga thorn was given me in the flesh, ha messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 iThree times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9But he said to me, j“My grace is sufficient for you, for kmy power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that lthe power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 mFor the sake of Christ, then, nI am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For owhen I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 13:4
4For phe was crucified in weakness, but qlives by the power of God. For rwe also are weak in him, but in dealing with you swe will live with him by the power of God.Galatians 4:13-14
13You know it was tbecause of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you uat first, 14and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me vas an angel of God, was Christ Jesus.
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