2 Corinthians 12:10

New American Bible - revised edition

Therefore, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and constraints, for the sake of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong. Selfless Concern for the Church.

Cross References

Luke 6:22

Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.

John 15:21

And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

Acts 5:41

So they left the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been found worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.

Romans 5:3

Not only that, but we even boast of our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance,

1 Corinthians 4:10

We are fools on Christ’s account, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

2 Corinthians 1:4

who encourages us in our every affliction, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction with the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God.

2 Corinthians 10:18

For it is not the one who recommends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord recommends.

2 Corinthians 12:9

but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For indeed he was crucified out of weakness, but he lives by the power of God. So also we are weak in him, but toward you we shall live with him by the power of God.

2 Corinthians 13:9

For we rejoice when we are weak but you are strong. What we pray for is your improvement.

2 Corinthians 4:17

For this momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,

2 Corinthians 4:5

For we do not preach ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for the sake of Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:15

He indeed died for all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

2 Corinthians 5:20

So we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were appealing through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 6:4

on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships, constraints,

2 Corinthians 7:4

I have great confidence in you, I have great pride in you; I am filled with encouragement, I am overflowing with joy all the more because of all our affliction. Paul’s Joy in Macedonia.

Ephesians 6:10

Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power.

Philippians 1:29

For to you has been granted, for the sake of Christ, not only to believe in him but also to suffer for him.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church,

2 Thessalonians 1:4

Accordingly, we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God regarding your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions you endure.

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, persecutions that I endured. Yet from all these things the Lord delivered me.

James 1:2

Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials,

Revelation 2:3

Moreover, you have endurance and have suffered for my name, and you have not grown weary.