someone who boasts of their weaknesses in a passive-aggressive effort to sound self-righteous. That’s not what Paul was doing. Nobody in ancient Rome boasted of weaknesses. Paul boasts of a weakness and an unanswered prayer. Then he adds: “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” (2 Cor 12:9–10).