THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 12

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1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord ⚑

2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago whether in the body I cannot tell or whether out of the body I cannot tell God knoweth such an one caught up to the third heaven ⚑

3 And I knew such a man whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell God knoweth ⚑

4 How that he was caught up into paradise and heard unspeakable words which it is not lawful for a man to utter ⚑

5 Of such an one will I glory yet of myself I will not glory but in mine infirmities ⚑

6 For though I would desire to glory I shall not be a fool for I will say the truth but now I forbear lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be or that he heareth of me ⚑

7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations there was given to me a thorn in the flesh the messenger of Satan to buffet me lest I should be exalted above measure ⚑

8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice that it might depart from me ⚑

9 And he said unto me My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me ⚑

10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities in reproaches in necessities in persecutions in distresses for hrist’s sake for when I am weak then am I strong ⚑

11 I am become a fool in glorying ye have compelled me for I ought to have been commended of you for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles though I be nothing ⚑

12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience in signs and wonders and mighty deeds ⚑

13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you forgive me this wrong ⚑

14 Behold the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burdensome to you for I seek not yours but you for the children ought not to lay up for the parents but the parents for the children ⚑

15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you though the more abundantly I love you the less I be loved ⚑

16 But be it so I did not burden you nevertheless being crafty I caught you with guile ⚑

17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you ⚑

18 I desired Titus and with him I sent a brother Did Titus make a gain of you walked we not in the same spirit walked we not in the same steps ⚑

19 Again think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you we speak before God in Christ but we do all things dearly beloved for your edifying ⚑

20 For I fear lest when I come I shall not find you such as I would and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not lest there be debates envyings wraths strifes backbitings whisperings swellings tumults ⚑

21 And lest when I come again my God will humble me among you and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

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