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2 Corinthians 12:10-12
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2 Corinthians 12:10-12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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.(A)
Paul’s Concern for the Corinthian Church
11 I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.(B) 12 The signs of an apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, signs and wonders and mighty works.(C)
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2 Corinthians 12:10-12
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2 Corinthians 12:10-12
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10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight(A) in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,(B) in persecutions,(C) in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.(D)
Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians
11 I have made a fool of myself,(E) 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](F) even though I am nothing.(G) 12 I persevered in demonstrating among you the marks of a true apostle, including signs, wonders and miracles.(H)
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 12:11 Or the most eminent apostles
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