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. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.(D) 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) 12 I persevered in demonstrating among you the marks of a true apostle, including signs, wonders and miracles.(P) 13 How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you?(Q) Forgive me this wrong!(R)

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Footnotes

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

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