Verse 30

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

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  • 1 Cor 2:3 : 3 I came to you in weakness, fear, and great trembling.
  • 2 Cor 12:5-9 : 5 On behalf of this man I will boast, but concerning myself I will not boast, except in my weaknesses. 6 For if I desire to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone think more of me than what they see in me or hear from me. 7 And because of the extraordinary revelations, so that I might not become conceited, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to torment me, so that I would not become conceited. 8 Concerning this, I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 9 But He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.' Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 11 I have become foolish in boasting; you compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you, because I am in no way inferior to the 'super-apostles,' even though I am nothing.
  • Col 1:24 : 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.
  • 2 Cor 11:16-18 : 16 I repeat, let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me as you would a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 17 What I am saying, I do not say as from the Lord, but as if in foolishness, with this confidence of boasting. 18 Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.
  • 2 Cor 12:1 : 1 Boasting is indeed not profitable for me. But I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
  • Prov 25:27 : 27 It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own glory.
  • Prov 27:2 : 2 Let another person praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
  • Jer 9:23-24 : 23 But let the one who boasts boast in this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord who exercises kindness, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for in these things I delight, declares the Lord. 24 The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh.