noyes - 2Corinthians:12

noyes@2Corinthians:12:1 @ It is indeed not expedient for me to boast; I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

noyes@2Corinthians:12:2 @ I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago,whether in the body, I know not, or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth,such a one caught up even to the third heaven.

noyes@2Corinthians:12:3 @ And I know such a man, whether in the body, or without the body, I know not; God knoweth,

noyes@2Corinthians:12:4 @ that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

noyes@2Corinthians:12:5 @ Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities.

noyes@2Corinthians:12:6 @ For if I should desire to boast, I should not be a fool; for I should say the truth; but I forbear, lest any one should think of me above what he seeth me to be, or what he heareth from me.

noyes@2Corinthians:12:7 @ And that I might not be too much lifted up by the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, that I might not be too much lifted up.

noyes@2Corinthians:12:8 @ In respect to this I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me;

noyes@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 boast in my weaknesses, that the strength of Christ may abide upon me.

noyes@2Corinthians:12:10 @ Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses in behalf of Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

noyes@2Corinthians:12:11 @ I have become a fool; it is ye that compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind the very foremost apostles, though I am nothing.

noyes@2Corinthians:12:12 @ Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you with all endurance, by signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

noyes@2Corinthians:12:13 @ For what is there in which ye were at disadvantage when compared with other churches, except that I myself was not a charge to you? Forgive me this wrong.

noyes@2Corinthians:12:14 @ Behold, I am ready to come to you this third time, and I will not be a charge 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.

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

noyes@2Corinthians:12:16 @ But be it so; I at least was not a charge to you; but yet, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

noyes@2Corinthians:12:17 @ Did I make gain of you by any of those whom I have sent to you?

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

noyes@2Corinthians:12:19 @ Have ye been thinking this long time that we are defending ourselves to you? It is before God in Christ that we are speaking; but all things, beloved, for your edification.

noyes@2Corinthians:12:20 @ For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and lest I too shall be found by you such as ye would not; lest there be wranglings, envying, wraths, rivalries, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

noyes@2Corinthians:12:21 @ and lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many of those who have sinned already, and did not repent of the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they committed.