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2 Corinthians 12 📜 📕 ↷
Paul's Revelation
1 IF I must glory (it is not expedient indeed) but I will come to the visions & revelations of our Lord.📜💬📚
2 I know a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not: God doth know) such a one rapt even to the third Heaven.📜💬📚
3 And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I know not; God doth know)📜💬📚
4 that he was rapt into Paradise; & heard secret words, which it is not lawful for a man to speak.📜💬📚
Paul's Thorn and God's Grace
5 For such an one I will glory: but for my self I will glory nothing, saving in my infirmities.📜💬📚
6 For and if I will glory, I shall not be foolish: for I shall say truth. But I spare, lest any man should esteem me above that which he seeth in me, or heareth any thing of me.📜💬📚
7 And lest the greatness of the revelations might extol me, there was given me a prick of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me.📜💬📚
8 For the which thing thrice I besought our Lord, that it might depart from me.📜💬📚
9 And he said to me: My grace sufficeth thee, for power is perfited in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in mine infirmity, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.📜💬📚
10 For the which cause I please my self in infirmities, in contumelies, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ. For when I am weak, then am I mighty.📜💬📚
Paul's Concern for the Corinthians
11 I am become foolish: you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended of you: for I have been nothing less than they that are above measure Apostles: although I am nothing.📜💬📚
12 Yet the signs of my Apostleship have been done upon you in all patience, in signs & wonders & mighty deeds.📜💬📚
13 For what is there that you have had less than the other churches; but that I my self have not burdened you? Pardon me this injury.📜💬📚
14 Behold, now the third time I am ready to come to you; & I will not be burdenous unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children lay up treasures for the parents, but the parents for the children.📜💬📚
15 But I most gladly will bestow, & will my self moreover be bestowed for your souls: although loving you more, I am loved less.📜💬📚
16 But be it so: I have not burdened you: but being crafty, I took you by guile.📜💬📚
17 Have I circumvented you by any of them whom I sent to you?📜💬📚
18 I requested Titus, and I sent with him a brother. Did Titus circumvent you? walked we not with one spirit? not in the self-same steps?📜💬📚
19 Of old think you that we excuse our selves to you? Before God, in Christ we speak: but all things (my dearest) for your edifying.📜💬📚
20 For I fear lest perhaps when I come, I find you not such as I would: and I be found of you, such an one as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, emulations, stomachings, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions be among you.📜💬📚
21 Lest again when I come, God humble me among you: & I mourn many of them that sinned before, & have not done penance for the uncleanness & fornication and incontinency that they have committed.📜💬📚
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