Thematic Bible
2 Corinthians 12:1 (show verse)
It is not expedient for me, no doubt, to rejoice; Nevertheless I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:2 (show verse)
I know a man in Christ above fourteen years agone - whether he were in the body I cannot tell, or whether he were out of the body I cannot tell; God knoweth - which was taken up into the third heaven.
2 Corinthians 12:3 (show verse)
And I know the same man - whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell; God knoweth -
2 Corinthians 12:4 (show verse)
how that he was taken up into paradise, and heard words not to be spoken, which no man can utter.
2 Corinthians 12:5 (show verse)
Of this man will I rejoice, of myself will I not rejoice, except it be of mine infirmities -
2 Corinthians 12:6 (show verse)
and yet though I would rejoice I should not be a fool, for I would say the truth. Nevertheless I spare, lest any man should think of me above that he seeth me to be, or heareth of me.
2 Corinthians 12:7 (show verse)
And lest I should be exalted out of measure through the abundance of revelations, there was given unto me of God unquietness of the flesh: the messenger of Satan to buffet me, because I should not be exalted out of measure.
2 Corinthians 12:8 (show verse)
For this thing besought I the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me,
2 Corinthians 12:9 (show verse)
and he said unto me, "My grace is sufficient for thee. For my strength is made perfect through weakness." Very gladly therefore will I rejoice of my weakness, that the strength of Christ may dwell in me.
2 Corinthians 12:10 (show verse)
Therefore have I delectation in infirmities, in rebukes, in need, in persecutions, in anguish, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
2 Corinthians 12:11 (show verse)
I am made a fool in boasting myself. Ye have compelled me: I ought to have been commended of you. For in nothing was I inferior unto the chief apostles, though I be nothing:
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2 Corinthians 12:12 (show verse)
Yet the tokens of an apostle were wrought among you with all patience; with signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
2 Corinthians 12:13 (show verse)
For what is it wherein ye were inferiors unto other congregations? Except it be therein that I was not grievous unto you. Forgive me this wrong done unto you.
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2 Corinthians 12:14 (show verse)
Behold now, the third time, I am ready to come unto you, and yet will I not be grievous unto you. For I seek not yours, but you. Also the children ought not to lay up for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the children.
2 Corinthians 12:15 (show verse)
I will very gladly bestow, and will be bestowed for your souls: though the more I love you, the less I am loved again.
2 Corinthians 12:16 (show verse)
But be it that I grieved you not: nevertheless I was crafty and took you with guile.
2 Corinthians 12:17 (show verse)
Did I defraud you by any of them which I sent unto you?
2 Corinthians 12:18 (show verse)
I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother: Did Titus defraud you of any thing? Walked we not in one spirit? Walked we not in like steps?
2 Corinthians 12:19 (show verse)
Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves? We speak in Christ in the sight of God. But we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
2 Corinthians 12:20 (show verse)
For I fear, lest it come to pass, that when I come I shall not find you such as I would: and I shall be found unto you such as I would not. I fear lest there be found among you debate, envying, wrath, strife, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, and discord.
2 Corinthians 12:21 (show verse)
I fear lest when I come again, God bring me low among you, and I be constrained to bewail many of them which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and wantonness which they have committed.