¹³ Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

³ And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

⁷ And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

⁸ For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

⁹ And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

¹⁰ Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

¹⁰ For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

⁶ But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

³⁰ If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

⁶ I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

⁶ Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,

⁴ For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.