2 Corinthians 12:10

Strength and help in weakness Trials and adversity Suffering Humility

⁸ For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

⁹ And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

¹¹ I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

¹² Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
KJV: Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
WEB: Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
ASV: Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ`s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
DARBY: Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits, for Christ: for when I am weak, then I am powerful.
BLB: Therefore I am well pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions and difficulties—for Christ; for when I may be weak, then I am powerful.

ÅB: Derfor er jeg vel til mote i skrøpelighet, i mishandling, i nød, i forfølgelser, i trengsler for Kristi skyld; for når jeg er skrøpelig, da er jeg sterk.
OTB: Derfor gleder jeg meg over svakheter, over fornærmelser, over trengsler, over forfølgelser, over vanskeligheter, for Kristi skyld; for når jeg er svak, da er jeg sterk.
B1930: Derfor er jeg vel til mote i skrøpelighet, i mishandling, i nød, i forfølgelser, i trengsler for Kristi skyld; for når jeg er skrøpelig, da er jeg sterk.

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Original text and word study

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2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
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Ephesians 6:10
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
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Romans 5:3
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
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2 Corinthians 13:4
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
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James 1:2
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
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1 Peter 1:6–7
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
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2 Corinthians 6:4
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
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Luke 6:22
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
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