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1For the sake of Christ, then, 2I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For 3when I am weak, then I am strong.
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Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.
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But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
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For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
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The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.