About a year after the first letter, from Macedonia.
What it is
The most personal thing he wrote: a defence of himself against people in Corinth who thought him unimpressive.
What to watch for
He boasts, deliberately, about the wrong things — beatings, shipwrecks, a thorn he asked three times to have removed.
But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.2 Corinthians 12:9
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