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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. |
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. |
Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults (mistreatment), with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong. |
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That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. |
So for the sake of Christ, I am well pleased and take pleasure in infirmities, insults, hardships, persecutions, perplexities and distresses; for when I am weak [in human strength], then am I [truly] strong (able, powerful in divine strength). |
Wherefore I am well content in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, and in circumstances under which I am subject to extreme pressure on behalf of Christ, for when I am weak, then I am filled with ability and power. |
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I can even enjoy weaknesses, insults, privations, persecutions and difficulties for Christ’s sake. For my very weakness makes me strong in Him. |
That is why I take such pleasure in weaknesses, insults, distresses, persecution, and difficulties, which I endure for Christ’s sake, for it is when I am consciously weak that I am really strong. |
- No cross references or parallel passage have been cited for this verse.
- Passivity Caused by Wrong Thought About Weakness; War On the Saints - Jesse Penn-Lewis The believer consents to a perpetual condition of weakness, under a misconception of its being a necessary state for the manifestation of Divine life and strength.
- Servants; The End Time Men - W.W. Fischer What contemporary Christianity says about our great power and authority gets shot down by even this incomplete list of verses.
- Stay Weak; The End Time Men - W.W. Fischer We have failed to see that child-likeness is spiritual maturity because we have been so busy trying to emulate the world by being macho-like Christians.
- Strength; The End Time Men - W.W. Fischer Admitting our inadequacies is not to promote self-hatred, self-pity, or an inferiority complex, but to bring us to a place of total honesty before Almighty God that without Him we can do nothing.
- Twelve Reasons for Suffering; The End Time Men - W.W. Fischer When sufferings happen we should realize we are identifying with the Lord’s walk through comparable situations, and because He went through them first He will lead us safely through them.
- The Wiles of the Adversary in the Spiritual Sphere Concerning Revelations, the Voice of the Lord, Guidance, and Liberty.; The Warfare With Satan and the Way of Victory - Jesse Penn-Lewis Let us see that we are now encased safely in the heavenly armour, under the protection of the Blood of the Lamb, as we take the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, and unveil some of the wiles of the devil which he plans around some aspects of the life in the spiritual sphere.