| Charles Eyre - 1832 - 482 páginas
...moderation. . ..-. « Often have I entreated the Lord, that mine . adversary might depart. And the Lord said . to me, " my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness. If you pray to be without trial, you pray to be independent of me." Rather then... | |
| 1864 - 578 páginas
...much exalted. 8 With regard to this, I three times entreated the Loid that it might leave me ; 9 and he said to me : My grace is sufficient .for you; for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may abide upon... | |
| 1866 - 416 páginas
...much exalted. 8 With regard to this, I three times entreated the Lord that it might leave me; 9 and he said to me: My grace is sufficient for you ; for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may abide upon... | |
| George Burgess - 2005 - 172 páginas
...measure. Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities,... | |
| George Wolfgang Forell - 1975 - 324 páginas
...possible for him to live with it. He tells us: "Three times I besought the Lord about this, that it should leave me; but he said to me 'My grace is sufficient...for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness' " (2 Cor. 12:8, 9). And Paul, too, was eventually executed for his Christian faith. Trust in God's... | |
| Anthony A. Hoekema - 1975 - 160 páginas
...this thorn might be removed, but each time the answer was no. What the Lord then said to me was this: "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (12:9). The Lord did not take away this thorn because He wished to keep me from relying on my own strength... | |
| Matthew Linn, Dennis Linn - 1978 - 276 páginas
...perfectly competent and successful in achieving before I can be happy with myself. 2 Cor. 12:9-10 — "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." 3. Against true peace (present in the midst of trials) — It is easier to avoid certain difficulties... | |
| Thomas N. Hart - 1980 - 136 páginas
...Satan, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I besought the Lord about this, that it should leave me; but he said to me, "My grace is sufficient...for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor 12:7-9). It is not difficult to find ourselves in this portrait. We too have thorns in the flesh,... | |
| John Saward - 1980 - 264 páginas
...weakness (2 Cor. 1 1 : 30). In the moving climax to the correspondence he reports the Lord's words to him: 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness' (2 Cor. 12:9). Moreover, he shows that such a reversal of human expectations is only an extension of... | |
| Jordan Aumann - 1980 - 447 páginas
...longer any difficulties in serving him, and one's very weakness becomes the basis for hoping in him. "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness .... For when I am weak, then 1 am strong" (2 Cor. 12:9-10). The Gift of Fortitude may arise. In the... | |
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