1It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.[ † ]Acts 16:9Acts 18:9Acts 22:17-18Acts 23:11Acts 26:13-15Acts 27:23Acts 9:3-61 Corinthians 14:62 Corinthians 12:7Galatians 1:12Galatians 2:2Ephesians 3:3-6 2I 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.[ † ]Romans 16:7Galatians 1:22Acts 22:17 3And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) 4how that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.[ † ]Luke 23:43Revelation 2:7 5Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.[ † ]2 Corinthians 11:30 6For 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. 7And 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.[ † ]Numbers 33:55Ezekiel 28:24Hosea 2:6Galatians 4:13-14Job 2:7Matthew 4:10Luke 13:161 Corinthians 5:5 8For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.[ † ]Deuteronomy 3:23Matthew 26:44 9And 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.[ † ]2 Corinthians 11:301 Peter 4:14 10Therefore 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.[ † ]Romans 5:3Romans 8:352 Corinthians 13:4
11I 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.[ † ]2 Corinthians 5:132 Corinthians 11:1-162 Corinthians 12:61 Corinthians 15:102 Corinthians 11:51 Corinthians 3:71 Corinthians 13:21 Corinthians 15:9 12Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.[ † ]Acts 14:3Romans 15:18Acts 15:12Acts 14:8-10Acts 16:16-18Acts 19:11-12Acts 20:6-12Acts 28:1-10 13For 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. 14Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.[ † ]2 Corinthians 1:152 Corinthians 13:1-2Acts 20:331 Corinthians 10:24-331 Corinthians 4:14Galatians 4:19 15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.[ † ]John 10:11Romans 9:32 Corinthians 1:6Philippians 2:17Colossians 1:241 Thessalonians 2:82 Timothy 2:102 Corinthians 6:12-13 16But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.[ † ]2 Corinthians 11:9 17Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? 18I 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?[ † ]2 Corinthians 8:18
19Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.[ † ]2 Corinthians 5:12Romans 9:1-22 Corinthians 11:311 Corinthians 10:33 20For 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:[ † ]1 Corinthians 4:212 Corinthians 13:2-10 21and 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.[ † ]2 Corinthians 2:1-42 Corinthians 13:21 Corinthians 5:1