| 12:1 | It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. |
| 12:2 | 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. |
| 12:3 | And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) |
| 12:4 | How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. |
| 12:5 | Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. |
| 12:6 | 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. |
| 12:7 | 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. |
| 12:7 | 又恐怕我因所得的啟示甚大、就過於自高、所以有一根刺加在我肉體上、就是撒但的差役、要攻擊我、免得我過於自高。 |
| 12:7 | 又恐怕我因所得的启示甚大，就过于自高，所以有一根刺加在我肉体上，就是撒但的差役，要攻击我，免得我过于自高。 |
| gen:32:31 | And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. |
| num:33:55 | But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. |
| eze:28:24 | And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. |
| job:2:6 | And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life. |
| job:2:7 | So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. |
| luk:13:16 | And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? |
| 1co:5:5 | To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. |
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| 12:8 | For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. |
| 12:9 | 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. |
| 12:10 | 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. |
| 12:11 | 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. |
| 12:12 | Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. |
| 12:13 | 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. |
| 12:14 | 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. |
| 12:15 | And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. |
| 12:16 | But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. |
| 12:17 | Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? |
| 12:18 | 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? |
| 12:19 | 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. |
| 12:20 | 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: |
| 12:21 | 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. |
