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2 Corinthians 12:10

James Moffatt - New Testament

It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.

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but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life.

To conclude. Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might;

Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance,

For though he was crucified in his weakness, he lives by the power of God; and though I am weak as he was weak, you will find I am alive as he is alive by the power of God.

Greet it as pure joy, my brothers, when you come across any sort of trial,

I prove myself at all points a true minister of God, by great endurance, by suffering, by troubles, by calamities,

The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy of suffering dishonour for the sake of the Name;

I am glad to be weak if you are strong; mend your ways, that is all I ask.

who comforts me in all my distress, so that I am able to comfort people who are in any distress by the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God.

Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man;

and that he died for all in order to have the living live no longer for themselves but for him who died and rose for them.

The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison,

They will do all this to you on account of my name, because they know not him who sent me.

We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools'; you in Christ are sensible. We are weak, you are strong; you are honoured, we are in disrepute.

I know that you are enduring patiently and have borne up for my sake and have not wearied.

for it is not the self-praiser with his own recommendations who is accepted, it is the man whom the Lord recommends.

So much so, that throughout the churches of God we are proud of you, proud of the stedfastness and faith you display through all the persecutions and the troubles in which you are involved.

For on behalf of Christ you have the favour of suffering no less than of believing in him,

I am suffering now on your behalf, but I rejoice in that; I would make up the full sum of all that Christ has to suffer in my person on behalf of the church, his Body;

I have absolute confidence in you, I am indeed proud of you, you are a perfect comfort to me, I am overflowing with delight, for all the trouble I have to bear.

(It is Christ Jesus as Lord, not myself, that I proclaim; I am simply a servant of yours for Jesus' sake.)

So I am an envoy for Christ, God appealing by me, as it were — be reconciled to God, I entreat you on behalf of Christ.

my persecutions, my sufferings — all that befell me at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, all the persecutions I had to undergo, from which the Lord rescued me.




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