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2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 181 helpful votesHelpfulNot Helpful. 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 of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Feb 28, 2013 · If there were one broad explanation for weakness, it would be to lack. Weakness means we don’t have what it takes. It means we are neither sovereign nor omniscient, nor invincible. We are not in control, we don’t know everything, and we can be stopped. Weakness means that we desperately need God.
1 Corinthians 1:25. Verse Concepts. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 1 Corinthians 8:9. Verse Concepts. But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. 1 Corinthians 1:27.
- 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.
- My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart. and my portion forever. Psalm 73:26 strength life dependence. He gives strength to the weary.
- Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7 fear worrying sadness. Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
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Paul’s most famous statement on the paradoxical spiritual power of weakness appears in 2 Corinthians 12. He tells us of his ecstatic experience of being “caught up into paradise,” where he received overwhelming and ineffable revelations (2 Corinthians 12:1–4). But as a result, In these few sentences, Paul completely reframes the way Christians are ...
Before we go further, we need to be clear that Paul does not include sin in his description of weakness here. The Greek word Paul uses is astheneia, the most common word for “weakness” in the New Testament. J.I. Packer, in his helpful study on 2 Corinthians, Weakness Is the Way, explains astheneialike this: But when Paul speaks of sin, he has more ...
At this point, you may be thinking, “Whatever Paul’s ‘thorn’ was, my weakness is not like that.” Right. That’s what we all think. I have a thorn-like weakness, known only to those closest to me. If I shared it with you, you might be surprised. It dogs me daily as I seek to carry out my family, vocational, and ministry responsibilities. It makes alm...
Paul said that his weakness, his “thorn . . . in the flesh,” was “given” to him (2 Corinthians 12:7). Given by whom? Whatever role Satan played, in Paul’s mind he was secondary. Paul received this weakness, as well as “insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities” (2 Corinthians 12:10), as assets given to him by his Lord. And as a “[steward] of...
Someday, when our Master returns, he will ask us to give an account of the talents he’s entrusted to us. Some of those talents will be our weaknesses. We don’t want to tell him we buried any of them. It may even be that the most valuable talent in our investment portfolio turns out to be a weakness. Since “it is required of stewards that they be fo...
1. ( n.) The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. ( n.) That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Greek. 769. astheneia -- weakness, frailty. ... weakness, frailty.
8359 weakness, spiritual. Human standards of strength and weakness are overturned by God’s perspective and may be used for his glory. Spiritual weakness leads to increased reliance on God. 2Co 12:10 See also Mt 26:41 pp Mk 14:38; Ro 4:19; 1Co 1:27-29; 1Co 2:2-5. Weakness demonstrates the power of God.
