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2 Corinthians Chapter 12|#11 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.#22 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 knows;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.#23 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knows;)#24 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.#25 Of such an one will I glory: Yet of myself I will not glory, but in my infirmities.#26 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: But now I endure it, lest anyone should think of me above which he saw me to be, or that he hears of me.#27 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.#28 For this thing I pleaded the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.#29 And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you: 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.#210 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.|+#211 I am become a fool in glorying; you have compelled me: For I ought to have been commended of you: For in nothing am I behind the very best apostles, though I be nothing.#212 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.#213 For what is it wherein you were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.|*214 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: For I do not seek yours, but you: For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.#215 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.#216 But be it so, I did not burden you: Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with deceit.#217 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent to you?#218 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?|*219 Again, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ: But we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.#220 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found to you such as you would not: Lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:#221 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and do not have repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.