7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, βMy grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.βTherefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christβs power may rest on me. 10 **That is why, for Christβs sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.