and I will be a father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me," says the all-powerful Lord.

For the arms of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful according to God to the overthrow of strongholds;

Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits, for Christ: for when I am weak, then I am powerful.

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you,

For we rejoice when we may be weak and ye may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.

For his letters (say they) are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

for you are sensible of the beneficence of our Lord Jesus Christ; powerful as he was, for your sake he became poor, that you through his poverty might be made rich.

The signs of an apostle were performed among you with utmost patience signs, wonders, and powerful actions.

God has power to shower all kinds of blessings upon you, so that, having, under all circumstances and on all occasions, all that you can need, you may be able to shower all kinds of benefits upon others.

Having judged this, - that, one, in behalf of all, died, hence, they all, died; and, in behalf of all, died he, - in order that, they who live, no longer for themselves, should live, but for him who, in their behalf, died and rose again.

to this I am urg'd by the love I bear to Christ, persuaded as I am, that if one died for all, then were all in a dying state: and that he died for all,