book: 2 Corinthians

reference: 2 Corinthians 12:1

text: It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:2

text: 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.


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:3

text: And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:4

text: How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:5

text: Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:6

text: 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.


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:7

text: 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.


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:8

text: For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:9

text: 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.


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:10

text: Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:11

text: 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.


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:12

text: Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:13

text: 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.


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:14

text: 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.


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:15

text: And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:16

text: But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:17

text: Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:18

text: 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?


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:19

text: 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.


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:20

text: 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:


reference: 2 Corinthians 12:21

text: 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.