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10 So for the sake of Christ, I am well pleased and take pleasure in infirmities, insults, hardships, persecutions, perplexities and distresses; for when I am weak [[a]in human strength], then am I [truly] strong (able, powerful [b]in divine strength).

11 Now I have been [speaking like] a fool! But you forced me to it, for I ought to have been [[c]saved the necessity and] commended by you. For I have not fallen short one bit or proved myself at all inferior to those superlative [false] apostles [of yours], even if I am nothing (a nobody).

12 Indeed, the signs that indicate a [genuine] apostle were performed among you fully and most patiently in miracles and wonders and mighty works.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 12:10 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  2. 2 Corinthians 12:10 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  3. 2 Corinthians 12:11 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.

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