 | M. Conrad Hyers - 1987 - 148 pàgines
...bitter complaint against heaven. Yet, no, the response is that of remarkable 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... | |
 | 1987 - 268 pàgines
...Sovereign [or LordJ said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions,... | |
 | Colin G. Kruse - 1987 - 228 pàgines
...type of boasting indulged in by his opponents, and for his own practice of boasting in weakness. / will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Having been taught that Christ's power is made perfect in weakness, Paul is glad to boast... | |
 | Philip Edgcumbe Hughes - 1987 - 644 pàgines
...human weakness is precisely the opportunity for the manifestation of divine power, he declares: "I will the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power...persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Cor. 12:&-10). They became mighty in war. The words of the Psalmist provide the best commentary... | |
 | Hans Urs von Balthasar - 1988 - 80 pàgines
...sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor 12:9). Once Paul had grasped this, then "I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses,...insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities", for all this created in him space for Christ's effective action (2 Cor 12:9-18). He is not very worried... | |
 | Stewart Delisle Govig - 1989 - 160 pàgines
...approach to understanding Paul's disability is suggested in the remainder of the paragraph cited above: I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses,...persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Cor. 12:9-10) Paul's work as a tentmaker may have helped him learn to be content with weaknesses... | |
 | Clinton E. Arnold - 1989 - 272 pàgines
...Paul, "my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness," and Paul responded, "I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me" (2 Cor 12:9; see also Rom 15:19; 1 Cor 2:4-5; 2 Cor 4:7; 6:7). l26 It should be noted that... | |
 | Frederick Fyvie Bruce - 1990 - 604 pàgines
...other aspects of his personality, the most revealing of these being probably the Paul who can say, "I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses,...persecutions and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Cor. 12:9f.). The Paul to whom witness is borne in the NT outside Acts is first and foremost... | |
 | Richard Stoll Armstrong - 1990 - 254 pàgines
...sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (12:9). Because of his faith, Paul could say, "For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses,...persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong" (12:10). Paul was strong because his strength was in Christ. it's too late for me. Homosexuals... | |
 | Charles B. Cousar - 1990 - 212 pàgines
...know about the strangeness when they seek to preach from Paul's letters. How are they to interpret "I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me" (2 Cor. 12:9) to the middle-management executive who faces a loss of job if his or her company... | |
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For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong. 
