PAUL'S THORN is NOT SICKNESS, it's PERSECUTION. Here are 2 (NASB) scriptures that clarify that. It says 'his grace is perfect in weakness, then he boast about his weakness, THEN HE TELLS YOU WHAT THOS
Colossians 2:6-7 6 Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, Seems so simple correct? As you have received him, walk in him. Why do we stumble and fall in this walk so much
John 11:1-6, 17, 21, 25-26 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her