2 Corinthians 12:10

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

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  • Rom 5:3 : 3 And not only `so', but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;
  • 2 Cor 13:4 : 4 for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.
  • 2 Cor 12:9 : 9 and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:
  • 2 Cor 6:4 : 4 but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,
  • Jas 1:2 : 2 All joy count `it', my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;
  • 1 Pet 1:6-7 : 6 in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials, 7 that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
  • Phil 2:17-18 : 17 but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all, 18 because of this do ye also rejoice and joy with me.
  • 2 Cor 5:15 : 15 and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.
  • Luke 6:22 : 22 `Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake --
  • 2 Cor 13:9 : 9 for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!
  • Eph 6:10 : 10 As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;
  • Phil 1:29 : 29 because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer;
  • John 15:21 : 21 but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;
  • Acts 5:41 : 41 they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,
  • 2 Cor 7:4 : 4 great `is' my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,
  • 2 Cor 10:18 : 18 for not he who is commending himself is approved, but he whom the Lord doth commend.
  • 2 Cor 11:23-30 : 23 ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times; 24 from Jews five times forty `stripes' save one I did receive; 25 thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed; 26 journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren; 27 in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness; 28 apart from the things without -- the crowding upon me that is daily -- the care of all the assemblies. 29 Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired; 30 if to boast it behoveth `me', of the things of my infirmity I will boast;
  • Rom 8:35-39 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 (according as it hath been written -- `For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,') 37 but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us; 38 for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, 39 nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of god, that `is' in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 we `are' fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we `are' ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;
  • 2 Cor 1:4 : 4 who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;
  • 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested, 11 for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,
  • 2 Cor 4:17 : 17 for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --
  • Col 1:24 : 24 I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,
  • 2 Thess 1:4 : 4 so that we ourselves do glory in you in the assemblies of God, for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye bear;
  • 1 Pet 4:13-14 : 13 but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice -- exulting; 14 if ye be reproached in the name of Christ -- happy `are ye', because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified;
  • Rev 2:3 : 3 and thou didst bear, and hast endurance, and because of my name hast toiled, and hast not been weary.

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    5Of such an one I will boast, and of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities,

    6for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;

    7and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.

    8Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me,

    9and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

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    29Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;

    30if to boast it behoveth `me', of the things of my infirmity I will boast;

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    9for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!

    10because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat `any' sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.

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    11I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

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    13wherefore, I ask `you' not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

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    3since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,

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    30the same conflict having, such as ye saw in me, and now hear of in me.

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    22I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.

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    13and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

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    5for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

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    27in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

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    15and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

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    1Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that `is' in Christ Jesus,