aSee 1 Cor. 2:3
bch. 5:13; 11:16, 17; [ver. 11]
cIsa. 43:2
dIsa. 40:29-31; [Phil. 4:13]
eSee 1 Cor. 2:5
f[ver. 6]
gSee ch. 11:5; 1 Cor. 15:10
hSee 1 Cor. 3:7; 15:9

2 Corinthians 12:5-6

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.

2 Corinthians 12:9

9But he said to me, c“My grace is sufficient for you, for dmy power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that ethe power of Christ may rest upon me.

2 Corinthians 12:11

Concern for the Corinthian Church

11 fI have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was gnot at all inferior to these super-apostles, heven though I am nothing.
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