¹³ for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

⁹ but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power^[a] is made perfect in weakness.” So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. ¹⁰ Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.