2 Corinthians 12:5-10
5On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, aexcept of my weaknesses— 6though if I should wish to boast, bI 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 cto 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
ea thorn was given me in the flesh, fa messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 gThree times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9But he said to me, h“My grace is sufficient for you, for imy power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that jthe power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 kFor the sake of Christ, then, lI am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For mwhen I am weak, then I am strong. Colossians 1:24
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24Now nI rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh oI am filling up pwhat is lacking in Christ’s afflictions qfor the sake of his body, that is, the church,
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