1It is necessary to boast; nothing is to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated.
8 is made perfect in weakness.” So I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
10Rom 5.3; 2 Cor 6.4; 2 Thess 1.4Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
Paul’s Concern for the Corinthian Church11 2 Cor 11.1, 5 I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
12Rom 15.18, 19The signs of an apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, signs and wonders and mighty works.
131 Cor 9.12, 18; 2 Cor 11.7How have you been worse off than the other churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!
14 Prov 19.14; 1 Cor 4.14, 15; 10.24, 33; 2 Cor 13.1 Here I am, ready to come to you this third time, and I will not be a burden because I do not want what is yours but you, for children ought not to save up for their parents but parents for their children.
15Phil 2.17; 1 Thess 2.8I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
16Be that as it may, I did not burden you. But, crafty person that I am, did I take you in by deceit?
17Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you?
182 Cor 8.6, 16, 18I urged Titus to go and sent the brother with him. Titus did not take advantage of you, did he? Did we not conduct ourselves with the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same footsteps?
19 Rom 9.1; 2 Cor 10.8 Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves before you? We are speaking in Christ before God. Everything we do, beloved, is for the sake of building you up.
201 Cor 1.11; 3.3; 2 Cor 2.1–4For I fear that when I come I may find you not as I wish and that you may find me not as you wish; I fear that there may perhaps be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.
212 Cor 2.1, 4; 13.2; Gal 5.19I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you and that I may have to mourn over many who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery that they have practiced.
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