| Jordan Aumann - 1980 - 447 pagini
...longer any difficulties in serving him, and one's very weakness becomes the basis for hoping in him. "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness .... For when I am weak, then 1 am strong" (2 Cor. 12:9-10). The Gift of Fortitude may arise. In the... | |
| Peter F. Ellis - 1982 - 302 pagini
...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." I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. '°For... | |
| Leonhard Goppelt - 1982 - 380 pagini
...prayer for the healing of a chronic illness was heard not with bodily results but through the promise: "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (II Cor. 12:9). Hence the dying of Jesus was understood as "the cross," ie. as the signpost that marked... | |
| Fred O. Francis, J. Paul Sampley - 1984 - 420 pagini
...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." I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. '"For... | |
| Walter Wink - 244 pagini
...messenger of Satan, to harass me." Three times he asked God to remove it; the third time God spoke: " 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' " Did Paul need a disability in order to combat a pride too powerful for him to master? We cannot even... | |
| Kenneth C. Haugk - 1984 - 164 pagini
...Lord isn't merely gritting his teeth and using imperfect humans: he likes it that way! He promises: "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor. 12:9). Personal Embarrassment Being distinctively Christian is sometimes threatening. Our embarrassment... | |
| Donald Senior - 1991 - 420 pagini
..."weakness" or limitation. The power of God enabled Paul to triumph over death: "The Lord said to me, 4My grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in weakness. ' I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me" (1I... | |
| Palladius - 1985 - 260 pagini
...of trials, not remembering the divine message to the Apostle when he was overcome with tribulations: My grace is sufficient for you; for my power is made perfect in infirmity.404 For they perceived the Church of Antioch being transplanted to the Church of Armenia... | |
| Witness Lee - 1985 - 254 pagini
...supply. In 2 Corinthians 12:9 we see that Paul experienced and enjoyed the grace of Christ: "And He has said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness." Then in 2 Corinthians 13:14 Paul goes on to say, "The grace of the Lord Jesus... | |
| Stanley B. Marrow - 1986 - 292 pagini
...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 12:7-9a). Prayers, even Paul's prayers, are not always answered; and there is no particular... | |
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