...moderation. . ..-. « Often have I entreated the Lord, that mine . adversary might depart. And the Lord said . to me, " my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness. If you pray to be without trial, you pray to be independent of me." Rather then...

...much exalted. 8 With regard to this, I three times entreated the Loid that it might leave me ; 9 and he said to me : My grace is sufficient .for you; for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may abide upon...

...much exalted. 8 With regard to this, I three times entreated the Lord that it might leave me; 9 and he said to me: My grace is sufficient for you ; for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may abide upon...

...measure. Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities,...

...to live with it. He tells us: "Three times I besought the Lord about this, that it should leave me; but he said to me 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness' " (2 Cor. 12:8, 9). And Paul, too, was eventually executed for his Christian faith. Trust in God's...

...this thorn might be removed, but each time the answer was no. What the Lord then said to me was this: "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (12:9). The Lord did not take away this thorn because He wished to keep me from relying on my own strength...

...perfectly competent and successful in achieving before I can be happy with myself. 2 Cor. 12:9-10 — "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." 3. Against true peace (present in the midst of trials) — It is easier to avoid certain difficulties...

...keep me from being too elated. Three times I besought the Lord about this, that it should leave me; but he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor 12:7-9). It is not difficult to find ourselves in this portrait. We too have thorns in the flesh,...

...Christ," 2 Cor. 12:9) has a greater dialectical relation to weakness and the cross than "the Spirit" (cf. "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness [2 Cor. 12:9; cf. 1 Cor. 1:23-25]). Although the Spirit causes us to sigh (Rom. 8:23) and assists us...

...weakness (2 Cor. 1 1 : 30). In the moving climax to the correspondence he reports the Lord's words to him: 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness' (2 Cor. 12:9). Moreover, he shows that such a reversal of human expectations is only an extension of...