2 Corinthians 12:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
2 Corinthians 12:1 NIV
I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:2 NIV
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.
2 Corinthians 12:3 NIV
And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows
2 Corinthians 12:4 NIV
was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell.
2 Corinthians 12:5 NIV
I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses.
2 Corinthians 12:6 NIV
Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say
2 Corinthians 12:7 NIV
or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
2 Corinthians 12:9 NIV
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
2 Corinthians 12:10 NIV
That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.