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between God's blessing or God's
curse. There will be blessing if you
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for the reason for the hope that
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³To keep me from becoming conceited

because of these surpassingly great
revelations, there was given me a
thorn in my flesh, a messenger of
Satan, to torment me. Three times I
pleaded with the Lord to take it away
from me. But he said to me, "My grace
is sufficient for you, for my power is
made perfect in weakness."
 Therefore I will boast all the more
gladly about my weaknesses, so
that Christ's power may rest on
me. That is why, for Christ's sake,
I delight in weaknesses, in insults,
in hardships, in persecutions, in
difficulties. For when I am weak,
then I am strong.´