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Chapter 12.

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It is not expedient for me, doubtless,
to glory.

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I will come to visions and revelations of
the Lord.

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I knew a man in Christ above fourteen
years ago, whether in the body I cannot

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tell, or whether out of the body I cannot
tell, God knoweth.

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Such and one caught up to the third
heaven.

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And I knew such a man, whether in the body
or out of the body I cannot tell,

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God knoweth.

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How that he was caught up into paradise,
and heard unspeakable words, which it is

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not lawful for a man to utter.

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Of such and one will I glory, yet of
myself I will not glory, but in mine

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infirmities.

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For though I would desire to glory,
I shall not be a fool, for I will say the

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truth.

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But now I forbear, lest any man should
think of me above that which he seeth me

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to be, or that he heareth of me.

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And lest I should be exalted above measure
through the abundance of the revelations,

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there was given to me a thorn in the
flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet

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me, lest I should be exalted above
measure.

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For this thing I besought the Lord thrice,
that it might depart from me.

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And he said unto me, My grace is
sufficient for thee, for my strength is

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made perfect in weakness.

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Most gladly therefore will I rather glory
in my infirmities, that the power of

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Christ may rest upon me.

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Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities,
in reproaches, in necessities,

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in persecutions, in distresses for
Christ's sake.

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For when I am weak, then am I strong.

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I am become a fool in glorying.

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Ye have compelled me, for I ought to have
been commended of you.

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For in nothing am I behind the very
chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

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Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought
among you in all patience, in signs,

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and wonders, and mighty deeds.

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For what is it wherein ye were inferior to
other churches, except it be that I myself

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was not burdensome to you?

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Forgive me this wrong.

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Behold, the third time I am ready to come
to you, and I will not be burdensome to

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you.

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For I seek not yours, but you.

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For the children ought not to lay up for
the parents, but the parents for the

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children.

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And I will very gladly spend and be spent
for you, though the more abundantly I love

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you, the less I be loved.

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But be it so, I did not burden you.

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Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you
with guile.

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Did I make a gain of you by any of them
whom I sent unto you?

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I desired Titus, and with him I sent a
brother.

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Did Titus make a gain of you?

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Walked we not in the same spirit?

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Walked we not in the same steps?

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Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves
unto you?

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We speak before God in Christ,
but we do all things, dearly beloved,

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for your edifying.

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For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not
find you such as I would, and that I shall

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be found unto you such as ye would not.

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Lest there be debates, envyings,
wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings,

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swellings, tumults, and lest, when I come
again, my God will humble me among you,

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and that I shall bewail many which have
sinned already, and have not repented of

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the uncleanness and fornication and
lasciviousness which they have committed.