2 Corinthians 11:30 Cross References - WPNT

³⁰ Well, if I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

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

¹⁶ Again I say, let no one think me a fool. But should anyone do so, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little bit. ¹⁷ What I am going to say I do not say according to the Lord, but as though foolishly, in this confident boasting. ¹⁸ Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I will too

¹ It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast; still, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

⁵ I can boast about someone like that, but not about myself, unless it be my weakness. ⁶ Now even if I wanted to go on boasting, I would not be stupid but speak the truth; but I refrain, so that no one will think more of me than what he sees in me and hears from me. ⁷ Because of the incredible importance of the revelations, to keep me from feeling too important, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to beat on me—to keep me from feeling too important. ⁸ Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. ⁹ But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more cheerfully about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may take up residence upon me. ¹⁰ So then, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. ¹¹ I have been boasting foolishly, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, because in nothing have I been inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf and supplement in my flesh the things lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the Church,