Read Bible Book Of 2 Corinthians Chapter 12 In Online
1 - I Must Go On Boasting. Although There Is Nothing To Be Gained, I Will Go On To Visions And Revelations From The Lord.
2 - I Know A Man In Christ Who Fourteen Years Ago Was Caught Up To The Third Heaven. Whether It Was In The Body Or Out Of The Body I Do Not Know--god Knows.
3 - And I Know That This Man--whether In The Body Or Apart From The Body I Do Not Know, But God Knows--
4 - Was Caught Up To Paradise. He Heard Inexpressible Things, Things That Man Is Not Permitted To Tell.
5 - I Will Boast About A Man Like That, But I Will Not Boast About Myself, Except About My Weaknesses.
6 - Even If I Should Choose To Boast, I Would Not Be A Fool, Because I Would Be Speaking The Truth. But I Refrain, So No One Will Think More Of Me Than Is Warranted By What I Do Or Say.
7 - To Keep Me From Becoming Conceited Because Of These Surpassingly Great Revelations, There Was Given Me A Thorn In My Flesh, A Messenger Of Satan, To Torment Me.
8 - Three Times I Pleaded With The Lord To Take It Away From Me.
9 - But He Said To Me, "My Grace Is Sufficient For You, For My Power Is Made Perfect In Weakness." Therefore I Will Boast All The More Gladly About My Weaknesses, So That Christ's Power May Rest On Me.
10 - That Is Why, For Christ's Sake, I Delight In Weaknesses, In Insults, In Hardships, In Persecutions, In Difficulties. For When I Am Weak, Then I Am Strong.
11 - I Have Made A Fool Of Myself, But You Drove Me To It. I Ought To Have Been Commended By You, For I Am Not In The Least Inferior To The "Super-apostles," Even Though I Am Nothing.
12 - The Things That Mark An Apostle--signs, Wonders And Miracles--were Done Among You With Great Perseverance.
13 - How Were You Inferior To The Other Churches, Except That I Was Never A Burden To You? Forgive Me This Wrong!
14 - Now I Am Ready To Visit You For The Third Time, And I Will Not Be A Burden To You, Because What I Want Is Not Your Possessions But You. After All, Children Should Not Have To Save Up For Their Parents, But Parents For Their Children.
15 - So I Will Very Gladly Spend For You Everything I Have And Expend Myself As Well. If I Love You More, Will You Love Me Less?
16 - Be That As It May, I Have Not Been A Burden To You. Yet, Crafty Fellow That I Am, I Caught You By Trickery!
17 - Did I Exploit You Through Any Of The Men I Sent You?
18 - I Urged Titus To Go To You And I Sent Our Brother With Him. Titus Did Not Exploit You, Did He? Did We Not Act In The Same Spirit And Follow The Same Course?
19 - Have You Been Thinking All Along That We Have Been Defending Ourselves To You? We Have Been Speaking In The Sight Of God As Those In Christ; And Everything We Do, Dear Friends, Is For Your Strengthening.
20 - For I Am Afraid That When I Come I May Not Find You As I Want You To Be, And You May Not Find Me As You Want Me To Be. I Fear That There May Be Quarreling, Jealousy, Outbursts Of Anger, Factions, Slander, Gossip, Arrogance And Disorder.
21 - I Am Afraid That When I Come Again My God Will Humble Me Before You, And I Will Be Grieved Over Many Who Have Sinned Earlier And Have Not Repented Of The Impurity, Sexual Sin And Debauchery In Which They Have Indulged.
