⁹ For we are glad when ^(A)we are weak and you are strong. Your ^(B)restoration is what we pray for.

Final Greetings

¹¹ Finally, brothers,^[a] rejoice. ^(A)Aim for restoration, comfort one another,^{[b] (B)}agree with one another, ^(C)live in peace; and the God of love and ^(D)peace will be with you.

^10 (A)We are fools for Christ's sake, but ^(B)you are wise in Christ. ^(C)We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

¹⁰ as we pray most earnestly ^(A)night and day ^(B)that we may see you face to face and ^(C)supply what is lacking in your faith?

¹⁰ And ^(A)after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, ^(B)who has called you to his ^(C)eternal glory in Christ, will himself ^(D)restore, ^(E)confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

⁵ On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, ^(A)except of my weaknesses— ⁶ though if I should wish to boast, ^(B)I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. ⁷ So ^(C)to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations,^{[a] (D)}a thorn was given me in the flesh, ^(E)a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. ^8 (F)Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. ⁹ But he said to me, ^(G)“My grace is sufficient for you, for ^(H)my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that ^(I)the power of Christ may rest upon me. ^10 (J)For the sake of Christ, then, ^(K)I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For ^(L)when I am weak, then I am strong.

^21 (A)equip you with everything good that you may do his will, ^(B)working in us^[a] that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, ^(C)to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

²³ and to ^(A)the assembly^[a] of the firstborn who are ^(B)enrolled in heaven, and to ^(C)God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

6 Therefore ^(A)let us leave ^(B)the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance ^(C)from dead works and of faith toward God,