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Paul » Has "a thorn in the flesh,"
My wealth of visions might have puffed me up, so I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to rack me and keep me from being puffed up; three times over I prayed the Lord to make it leave me, but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life.
no, although it was because of an illness (you know) that I preached the gospel to you on my former visit, and though my flesh was a trial to you, you did not scoff at me nor spurn me, you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus. You congratulated yourselves.
Paul's » Voyage to rome - with luke, aristarchus, and others ac 27-28 » Thorn
My wealth of visions might have puffed me up, so I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to rack me and keep me from being puffed up;
no, although it was because of an illness (you know) that I preached the gospel to you on my former visit,