The KJV Bible With Strong's References:
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2 Corinthians 12
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- 12:1 It
is
not
expedient for
me
doubtless to
glory
*. I will
come
to
visions
and
revelations of the
Lord.
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- 12:2 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.
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- 12:3
And I
knew
such a
man,
* (whether
in the
body,
or
out of the
body, I
cannot
tell:
God
knoweth;)
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- 12:4 How
that he was caught
up
into
paradise,
and
heard
unspeakable
words,
which it
is
not
lawful for a
man to
utter.
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- 12:5
Of such an
one will I
glory:
yet
of
myself I
will
not
glory,
but
in
mine
infirmities.
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- 12:6
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.
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- 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.
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- 12:8
For this
thing I
besought the
Lord
thrice,
that it might
depart
from
me.
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- 12:9
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.
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- 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.
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- 12:11 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.
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- 12:12
Truly the
signs of an
apostle were
wrought
among
you
in
all
patience,
in
signs,
and
wonders,
and mighty
deeds.
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- 12:13
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.
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- 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.
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- 12:15
And
I will very
gladly
spend
and be
spent
for
you
*;
though the more
abundantly I
love
you, the
less I be
loved.
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- 12:16
But be it
so,
I
did
not
burden
you:
nevertheless,
being
crafty, I
caught
you with
guile.
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- 12:17 Did I make a
gain
* of
you
by
any of
them
whom I
sent
unto
you?
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- 12:18 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?
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- 12:19
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.
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- 12:20
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:
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- 12:21 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.
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