[verga]

What does the text say? You keep twisting and going through all these mental gymnastics to avoid the literal meaning of the text.

[svcw]

As a so called scholar, it is interesting that you apparently do not understand historical context, as well as the full contextual meaning of the versus. Again my explanation: When Paul was preaching to the Gentiles he had all manor of physical suffering (may had to do with his prison time). What he is talking about here is not a deficiency of the Cross but his own personal physical sufferings that he suffered as he preached the “Good News”. He preached that Christ suffered on the Cross to atone for sin. Paul is preaching he accepts his physical ailments while preaching on behalf of Christ.