8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
5 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses.
6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say.
7 To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away 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 gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.
10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
12:8For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
12:8For which thing thrice I besought the Lord, that it might depart from me.
12:8Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
12:8For this I thrice besought the Lord that it might depart from me.
12:8Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
12:8For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
12:8Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
12:8Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me,
12:8For this thing I sought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.