And in this confidence I intended to visit you, before going elsewhere, that you might have a pleasure twice over.

(not that I am attempting to lord it over your faith, but rather to work with you for your happiness); for your faith is stedfast.

For, alive though I am, I am always given over to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may shine forth in my dying flesh.

even as it is written, He who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little did not lack.

You put up with it, though they make slaves of you, live on you, seize your property, lord it over you, even strike you in the face, in the way of degradation!

In Damascus, the governor under Aretas the King, kept guard over the city of the Damascus, to arrest me;

It was for this reason, lest I should be over-elated, that there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, lest I should be over-elated.

Concerning this, three times over I supplicated the Lord that it might leave me;

Most gladly therefore will I boast rather of my weakness, that over me like a tent may be pitched the power of Christ. That is why I rejoice in weakness, in ill-treatment, in troubles, in persecutions and calamities for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.