'My Grace Is Sufficient' — 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 · Berean Standard Bible
Paul pleads three times for God to remove his 'thorn in the flesh,' a persistent affliction that torments him, and God answers not with healing but with words: 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' For anyone enduring chronic pain or unanswered prayers for relief, this passage offers a startling reframe — that God's strength shows up most clearly in our weakness. Paul learns to say, 'When I am weak, then I am strong.'
7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
9But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
10That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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