2 Corinthians 12:7-11
New International Version
7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations.(A) Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh,(B) a messenger of Satan,(C) to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.(D) 9 But he said to me, “My grace(E) is sufficient for you, for my power(F) is made perfect in weakness.(G)”(H) Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight(I) in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,(J) in persecutions,(K) in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.(L)
Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians
11 I have made a fool of myself,(M) but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,”[a](N) even though I am nothing.(O)
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 12:11 Or the most eminent apostles
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