³⁰ If I must boast, I will boast^(A) of the things that show my weakness.^{(B) 31} The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever,^(C) knows^(D) that I am not lying. ³² In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me.^{(E) 33} But I was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and slipped through his hands.^(F)

⁹ But he said to me, “My grace^(A) is sufficient for you, for my power^(B) is made perfect in weakness.^(C)”^(D) 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^(E) in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,^(F) in persecutions,^(G) in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.^(H)