rwbs - 2Corinthians:12

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:1 @ It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. (note:)I will come: Gr. For I will come(:note)

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:2 @ I knew a man in Christ fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such one caught up to the third heaven.

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:3 @ And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:4 @ How he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. (note:)lawful: or, possible(:note)

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:5 @ Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in my infirmities.

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:6 @ For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me, or he heareth from me.

rwbs@2Corinthians: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.

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:8 @ For this thing I besought the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:9 @ And he said to 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.

rwbs@2Corinthians: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.

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:11 @ I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you: for in nothing am I behind the very greatest apostles, though I am nothing.

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:12 @ Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:13 @ For what is it in which ye were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

rwbs@2Corinthians: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.

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:15 @ And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved. (note:)for you: Gr. for your souls(:note)

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:16 @ But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:17 @ Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent to you?

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:18 @ I urged Titus, and with I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? not in the same steps?

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:19 @ Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves to you? we speak before God in Christ: but all things, dearly beloved, for your edification.

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:20 @ For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and I shall be found by you such as ye would not: lest debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults:

rwbs@2Corinthians:12:21 @ lest, when I come again, my God may humble me among you, and I shall bewail many who have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and immorality and licentiousness which they have committed.