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12:1  It is not expedient for me doubtless to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
12:2  I knew a man in Christ fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knows;) such a one caught up to the third heaven.
12:3  And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knows;)
12:4  How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
12:5  Of such a one will I boast: yet of myself I will not boast, but in my weaknesses.
12:6  For though I would desire to boast, 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 sees me to be, or that he hears of me.
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.
12:8  For this thing I besought the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.
12:9  And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
12:10  Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
12:11  I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you: for in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I be nothing.
12:12  Truly the signs of an apostle were done among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
12:13  For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
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.
12:15  And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
12:16  But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I took you with guile.
12:17  Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
12:18  I urged 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?
12:19  Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
12:20  For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found unto you such as you desire not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, conceit, tumults:
12:21  And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn over many who have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have committed.