Skip navigation and move to Contents...
Bible 2.0 Scripture explains itself Bible 2.0

The Word for Wednesday, 17 April 2024

English Standard Version

When my spirit faints within me, you know my way!

Psalm 142:3

Paul writes:

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:10 (ESV)

Psalm 142 (English Standard Version)

1 With my voice I cry out to the Lord;
with my voice I plead for mercy to the Lord.
2 I pour out my complaint before him;
I tell my trouble before him.
3 When my spirit faints within me,
you know my way!
In the path where I walk
they have hidden a trap for me.
4 Look to the right and see:
there is none who takes notice of me;
no refuge remains to me;
no one cares for my soul.
5 I cry to you, O Lord;
I say, “You are my refuge,
my portion in the land of the living.”
6 Attend to my cry,
for I am brought very low!
Deliver me from my persecutors,
for they are too strong for me!

Read more...(to top)

2 Corinthians 12 (English Standard Version)

7 So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.
9 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 of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
11 I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
12 The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.
13 For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!

Read more...(to top)

Other Bible Editions

Select...

Free Bible Version

When I'm totally discouraged, you know the direction I should take.

Psalm 142:3

Paul wrote:

I appreciate weaknesses, insults, troubles, persecutions, and difficulties that I suffer for Christ's sake. For when I'm weak, then I'm strong!

2 Corinthians 12:10

Psalm 142 (Free Bible Version)

1 I call out to the Lord for help; pleading with the Lord for mercy.
2 I pour out my complaints before him; I tell him what's troubling me.
3 When I'm totally discouraged, you know the direction I should take. But whichever way I go, people set traps for me.
4 I look to my right for someone to support me—but no one pays me any attention. There's no safe place for me—no one cares about me at all.
5 I cry out to you, Lord, for help, saying, “You are the one who keeps me safe; you are all I need in life.
6 Please listen to my sad cry, for I'm feeling very low. Please save me from those who are after me, for they're too strong for me.

Read more...(to top)

2 Corinthians 12 (Free Bible Version)

7 Also, because these revelations were so amazingly great, and so that I wouldn't become proud, I was given a “thorn in my flesh”—a messenger from Satan to hurt me so that I wouldn't become proud.
8 I pleaded with the Lord three times to get rid of this problem.
9 But he told me, “My grace is all you will need, for my power is effective in weakness.” That's why I happily boast about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may reside in me.
10 So I appreciate weaknesses, insults, troubles, persecutions, and difficulties that I suffer for Christ's sake. For when I'm weak, then I'm strong!
11 I'm talking like a fool, but you made me do it! You should really have been speaking well of me, for in no way am I inferior to the super-apostles, even though I don't count for anything.
12 Yet the marks of an apostle were patiently demonstrated among you—signs, wonders, and powerful miracles.
13 In what way were you inferior to the other churches except I wasn't any burden to you? Please forgive me for doing you wrong!

Read more...(to top)