10 (A)For the sake of Christ, then, (B)I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For (C)when I am weak, then I am strong.

Concern for the Corinthian Church

11 (D)I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was (E)not at all inferior to these super-apostles, (F)even though I am nothing. 12 (G)The signs of a true apostle were performed among you (H)with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.

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10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight(A) in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,(B) in persecutions,(C) in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.(D)

Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians

11 I have made a fool of myself,(E) 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](F) even though I am nothing.(G) 12 I persevered in demonstrating among you the marks of a true apostle, including signs, wonders and miracles.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 12:11 Or the most eminent apostles