2 Corinthians 12:1-5
PAUL'S BOAST OF HIS WEAKNESS. Supernatural revelations:... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL'S BOAST OF HIS WEAKNESS. Supernatural revelations:... [ Continue Reading ]
IT IS NOT EXPEDIENT FOR ME DOUBTLESS TO GLORY. I WILL COME TO VISIONS AND REVELATIONS OF THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I KNEW SUCH A MAN, (WHETHER IN THE BODY OR OUT OF THE BODY, I CANNOT TELL: GOD KNOWETH;)... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW THAT HE WAS CAUGHT UP INTO PARADISE, AND HEARD UNSPEAKABLE WORDS, WHICH IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR A MAN TO UTTER.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF SUCH AN ONE WILL I GLORY; YET OF MYSELF I WILL NOT GLORY BUT IN MINE INFIRMITIES. What a disagreeable task the apostle found this matter of glorying to which the attitude of the Corinthians had driven him is here again apparent: I must needs glory, though, indeed, it is not expedient. Not of his... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
Unusual tribulations:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS THING I BESOUGHT THE LORD THRICE THAT IT MIGHT DEPART FROM ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Paul implies that there are other matters, labors and experiences, which he might well make subjects of boasting: For if I should want to b... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT PAUL EXPECTS OF THE CORINTHIANS. Their love should have commended him in his love for them:... [ Continue Reading ]
TRULY, THE SIGNS OF AN APOSTLE WERE WROUGHT AMONG YOU IN ALL PATIENCE, IN SIGNS, AND WONDERS, AND MIGHTY DEEDS.... [ Continue Reading ]
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!... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I WILL VERY GLADLY SPEND AND BE SPENT FOR YOU; THOUGH THE MORE ABUNDANTLY I LOVE YOU, THE LESS I BE LOVED.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT BE IT SO, I DID NOT BURDEN YOU; NEVERTHELESS, BEING CRAFTY, I CAUGHT YOU WITH GUILE. Paul here turns the fact of his boasting against the Corinthians, to their reproach, saying that his becoming foolish in that way, in a manner which he personally considers scandalous, was occasioned by their ha... [ Continue Reading ]
DID I MAKE A GAIN OF YOU BY ANY OF THEM WHOM I SENT UNTO YOU?... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul hopes for an edifying repentance on the part of the Corinthians:... [ Continue Reading ]
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?... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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;... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Paul meets the suspicions of his enemies with direct questions; for just as he i... [ Continue Reading ]