2 Corinthians 12:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Διὸ εὐδοκῶ ἐν ἀσθενείαις, ἐν ὕβρεσιν, ἐν ἀνάγκαις, ἐν διωγμοῖς, ἐν στενοχωρίαις ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ: ὅταν γὰρ ἀσθενῶ, τότε δυνατός εἰμι.

Transliteration

Therefore I eudokō in astheneiais, in hybresin, in anagkais, in diōgmois, in stenochōriais for Christou: when for I asthenō, then dynatos eimi.

Grammar Details

• *eudokō*: present indicative, active, 1st singular - I am well pleased/take pleasure in
• *astheneiais*: dative, feminine, plural - weaknesses/infirmities
• *hybresin*: dative, feminine, plural - insults/reproaches
• *anagkais*: dative, feminine, plural - necessities/hardships
• *diōgmois*: dative, masculine, plural - persecutions
• *stenochōriais*: dative, feminine, plural - distresses/difficulties
• *Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Christ/for Christ's sake
• *asthenō*: present indicative, active, 1st singular - I am weak
• *dynatos*: nominative, masculine, singular - powerful/strong
• *eimi*: present indicative, 1st singular - I am

Word Meanings

• *eudokō*: I am well pleased/I take pleasure in/I delight in
• *astheneiais*: weaknesses/infirmities/frailties
• *hybresin*: insults/reproaches/injuries
• *anagkais*: necessities/hardships/constraints
• *diōgmois*: persecutions/pursuits
• *stenochōriais*: distresses/difficulties/constraints
• *asthenō*: I am weak/I am feeble/I lack strength
• *dynatos*: powerful/strong/mighty/able

Referenced Verses

• Rom 5:3 : 3 And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;
• 2 Cor 13:4 : 4 for {G2532} he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you.
• 2 Cor 12:9 : 9 And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
• 2 Cor 6:4 : 4 but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
• Jas 1:2 : 2 Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;
• 1 Pet 1:6-7 : 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials, 7 that the proof of your faith, [being] more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
• Phil 2:17-18 : 17 Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all: 18 and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me.
• 2 Cor 5:15 : 15 and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.
• Luke 6:22 : 22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you [from their company], and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
• 2 Cor 13:9 : 9 For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: {G1161} this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
• Eph 6:10 : 10 Finally, {G3450} {G80} be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
• Phil 1:29 : 29 because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:
• John 15:21 : 21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
• Acts 5:41 : 41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the Name.
• 2 Cor 7:4 : 4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
• 2 Cor 10:18 : 18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
• 2 Cor 11:23-30 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; 26 [ in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; 27 [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28 Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me {G2596} daily, anxiety for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not? 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.
• Rom 8:35-39 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.
• 2 Cor 1:4 : 4 who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
• 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
• 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 [ we are] pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; 9 pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; 10 always bearing about in the body the dying of {G2962} Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
• 2 Cor 4:17 : 17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us {G2596} more and {G5236} more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
• Col 1:24 : 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;
• 2 Thess 1:4 : 4 so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;
• 1 Pet 4:13-14 : 13 but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy. 14 If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed [are ye]; because the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you.
• Rev 2:3 : 3 and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name's sake, and hast not grown weary.