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I shall therefore joyfully boast in my sufferings, that the power of The Messiah may rest upon me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="spcl">Because of this, I am pleased with suffering, with disgrace, with distress, with persecution, with imprisonment, which is for the person of The Messiah, for when I am weak, then I am strong.</span><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="spcl">Behold, I was stupid in my boasting, because you compelled me, for you were indebted to testify for me because I lacked nothing of those Apostles who greatly excelled, even though I was nothing.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="spcl">I performed the signs of an Apostle among you with all patience and with heroic deeds, with wonders and miracles.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="spcl">For what did you lack of other churches, except only in this, that I was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrongdoing!</span><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="spcl">Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I shall not be a burden to you, because I do not seek yours, but you; for children ought not lay up treasure for the parents but the parents for their children.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="spcl">But I cheerfully also shall spend and I would even give up my person for the sake of your souls, even though, the more I love you, the less you love me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="spcl">And perhaps I was not a burden to you, but as a crafty man I robbed you by treachery.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="spcl">Did I greedily desire what was yours by the agency of another man whom I sent to you?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="spcl">When I asked Titus and sent the brethren with him, was Titus greedily desiring what was yours? Did we not walk in the same spirit and in the same steps?</span><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="spcl">Do you again think that we make excuses to you? We speak before God in The Messiah, and all these things, my beloved, are for your edification.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="spcl">For I fear lest I come to you and shall not find you as I like, and I may be found by you also as you do not like, lest there be fighting, envy, rage, contention, slander, murmuring, insolence and tumult,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="spcl">Lest when I come to you, my God would humble me and I would grieve over many who have sinned and have not returned from defilement, from fornication and from lewdness which they have practiced.</span><p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="//www.lulu.com/shop/rev-david-bauscher/the-original-aramaic-new-testament-in-plain-english-with-psalms-proverbs-8th-edition-with-notes/hardcover/product-21273790.html">The Original Aramaic New Testament in Plain English- with Psalms & Proverbs<br>Copyright © 2007; 8th edition Copyright © 2013<br>All rights reserved. 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