Paul Boasts About His Sufferings

¹⁶ I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool.^(A) But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting.

¹⁸ Since many are boasting in the way the world does,^(A) I too will boast.^(B)

³⁰ If I must boast, I will boast^(A) of the things that show my weakness.^(B)

⁵ I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses.^(A)

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.