I became to the weak ones as weak, that I might gain the weak ones. To all people I have become all things, that in any and every way I might save some.
Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of Christ. For whenever I may be weak, then I am powerful.
And we exhort you, brothers, to admonish the disobedient ones, comfort the ones being faint-hearted, sustain the ones being weak, be long-suffering towards all.
Fathers, I have written to you because you have known the One from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the Word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.