10 Therefore I take [a]pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguish for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

11 I was a fool to boast myself: ye have compelled me: [b]for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I inferior unto the very chief Apostles, though I be nothing.

12 The [c]signs of an Apostle were wrought among you with all patience, with signs, and wonders and great works.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 12:10 I do not only take them patiently and with a good heart, but also I take great pleasure in them.
  2. 2 Corinthians 12:11 Again he maketh the Corinthians witnesses of those things whereby God had sealed his Apostleship amongst them, and again he desireth by certain arguments, how far he is from all covetousness, and also how he is affectioned towards them.
  3. 2 Corinthians 12:12 The arguments whereby it may well appear, that I am indeed an Apostle of Jesus Christ.

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