1 Corinthians 2:3

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1 Corinthians 2:3

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

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we are made fools for our attachment to Christ, while you, who are christians too, still pass for the wise: we are in poverty, but you are in power: you meet with esteem, but we find contempt.

Having pass'd thro' Amphipolis and Apollonia, they arriv'd at Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue.

and when they were arriv'd he told them, you know how I have always behav'd towards you from the first day of my arrival in Asia:

Therefore, having by the divine favour such a ministry, I exert myself:

but in all things I approve myself as the minister of God, by great constancy in afflictions, in torments, in distresses, from stripes,

for when I came to Macedonia, I had no respit from the trouble that beset me on every side: oppositions from without, and apprehensions within.

I who am a person of a mean presence, when among you, but exert myself upon your account, when absent; I Paul intreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, not to let me exert that authority,

who is afflicted, and I not suffer? who is offended, and I not inflam'd?

I might glory in being the man; but I will not glory in any thing relating to myself, unless it be my sufferings.

for tho' he was crucified with the appearance of weakness, yet he lives by the power of God; tho' we are afflicted upon his account, we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

It is not you that have done me any injury: tho' you knew through what infirmity of the flesh I heretofore preached the gospel to you,