 | Johan Christiaan Beker - 452 pages
...Paul does not relate the last option to "the Spirit," although he does identify "power" as weakness: "For when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Cor. 12:10). I therefore conclude that Paul often speaks of the Spirit in an inherently triumphant manner that prevents... | |
 | John L. Guest - 1984 - 32 pages
...sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Cor 12:10). From God's perspective poverty is wealth; in God's eyes the meek are leaders; the slaves are free;... | |
 | 1985 - 118 pages
...Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses,...persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (NIV) 33 EPHESIANS 2:8-10 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith— and this... | |
 | Stanley B. Marrow - 1986 - 278 pages
...sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong (2 Cor 12:10; see Gal 4: 12-15). As to his supposed oratorical skills — which should not be confounded with the... | |
 | M. Conrad Hyers - 1987 - 130 pages
...acceptance and equanimity: "I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Cor. 12:10). Or, as he writes to the church at Philippi: "I have learned, in whatever state I am, to be content.... | |
 | Wesley L. Duewel - 1989 - 328 pages
...11:23-30) served to drive him closer to God and to constant dependence upon God, the apostle responded, "That is why for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses,...when I am weak, then I am strong " (2 Cor. 12:10). For Christ's sake, for the continuing experience of His power, His Shekinah glory tabernacling over... | |
 | Richard Stoll Armstrong - 1990 - 244 pages
...sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Cor. 12:10). it is a risky place to begin the counseling relationship. If a person is mentally or emotionally ill,... | |
 | Johan Christiaan Beker - 152 pages
...just as "power" not only succeeds "weakness" (1 Cor. 15:43) but also manifests itself as "weakness": "For when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Cor. 12:10). The catalogs of "dangerous situations" (peristaseis = crisis situations; cf. 1 Cor. 4:9-13; 2 Cor.... | |
 | 1991 - 174 pages
...insults, hardships, calamities, and persecution, claiming them as prerequisites for his confession, "For when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Cor. 12:10). Henri Nouwen's well-known picture of the positive power of a wounded healer comes straight from Holy... | |
 | Edward Carter - 1991 - 81 pages
...content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and constraints, for the sake of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong" { 2 Cor 12:10). As the mystic is thus simultaneously aware of her or his helplessness and is convinced of the necessity... | |
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Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 
