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2 Corinthians - ch 12 v 1 - 20
- As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
- I have knowledge of a man in Christ, fourteen years back (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only), who was taken up to the third heaven.
- And I have knowledge of such a man (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only),
- How he was taken up into Paradise, and words came to his ears which may not be said, and which man is not able to say.
- On account of such a one I will have glory: for myself I will take no glory, but only in my feeble body.
- For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am.
- And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.
- And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me.
- And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.
- So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.
- I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.
- Truly the signs of an Apostle were done among you in quiet strength, with wonders and acts of power.
- For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.
- This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.
- And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?
- But let it be so, that I was not a trouble to you myself; but (someone may say) being false, I took you with deceit.
- Did I make a profit out of you by any of those whom I sent to you?
- I gave orders to Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus make any profit out of you? were we not guided by the same Spirit, in the same ways?
- It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.
- For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;
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