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2 Corinthians 13 4
For indeed He was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the power of God. For we too are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because of the power of God directed toward you.
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2 Corinthians 11 29-2 Corinthians 11 30
Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern?If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my weakness.
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2 Corinthians 12 5-2 Corinthians 12 10
In behalf of such a man I will boast; but in my own behalf I will not boast, except regarding my weaknesses.For if I do wish to boast I will not be foolish, for I will be speaking the truth; but I refrain from this, so that no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me.Because of the extraordinary greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me— to keep me from exalting myself!Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might leave me.And He has said to me,“ My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in distresses, in persecutions, in difficulties, in behalf of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
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2 Corinthians 10 1
Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ— I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!
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2 Corinthians 13 9
For we rejoice when we ourselves are weak, but you are strong; this we also pray for, that you become mature.
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2 Corinthians 7 5
For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side: conflicts on the outside, fears inside.
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2 Corinthians 6 4
but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in difficulties,
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Acts 17:6-12
When they did not find them, they began dragging Jason and some brothers before the city authorities, shouting,“ These men who have upset the world have come here also;and Jason has welcomed them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.”They stirred up the crowd and the city authorities who heard these things.And when they had received a pledge from Jason and the others, they released them.The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.Now these people were more noble minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.Therefore, many of them believed, along with a significant number of prominent Greek women and men.
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Acts 18:6
But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them,“ Your blood is on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
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2 Corinthians 4 1
Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart,
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2 Corinthians 4 16
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer person is decaying, yet our inner person is being renewed day by day.
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2 Corinthians 4 7-2 Corinthians 4 12
But we have this treasure in earthen containers, so that the extraordinary greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed;always carrying around in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.For we who live are constantly being handed over to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.So death works in us, but life in you.
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Acts 20:18-19
And when they came to him, he said to them,“ You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and trials which came upon me through the plots of the Jews;
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2 Corinthians 10 10
For they say,“ His letters are weighty and strong, but his personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible.”
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1 Corinthians 4 10-1 Corinthians 4 13
We are fools on account of Christ, but you are prudent in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are without honor!Up to this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless;and we labor, working with our own hands; when we are verbally abused, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;when we are slandered, we reply as friends; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.
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Galatians 4:13-14
but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the first time;and you did not despise that which was a trial to you in my bodily condition, nor express contempt, but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself.
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Acts 18:12
But while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up together against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,
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Acts 17:1
Now when they had traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
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Acts 18:1
After these events Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.