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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 12:8 (NIV)

Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from 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.

2 Corinthians 12:11 (NIV)

I have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:12 (NIV)

I persevered in demonstrating among you the marks of a true apostle, including signs, wonders and miracles.

2 Corinthians 12:13 (NIV)

How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

2 Corinthians 12:15 (NIV)

So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well. If I love you more, will you love me less?

2 Corinthians 12:16 (NIV)

Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you. Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery!

2 Corinthians 12:17 (NIV)

Did I exploit you through any of the men I sent to you?

2 Corinthians 12:18 (NIV)

I urged Titus to go to you and I sent our brother with him. Titus did not exploit you, did he? Did we not walk in the same footsteps by the same Spirit?

2 Corinthians 12:19 (NIV)

Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God as those in Christ; and everything we do, dear friends, is for your strengthening.

2 Kings 12:1 (NIV)

In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

2 Kings 12:3 (NIV)

The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

2 Kings 12:4 (NIV)

Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money that is brought as sacred offerings to the temple of the Lord —the money collected in the census, the money received from personal vows and the money brought voluntarily to the temple.

2 Kings 12:5 (NIV)

Let every priest receive the money from one of the treasurers, then use it to repair whatever damage is found in the temple.”

2 Kings 12:6 (NIV)

But by the twenty-third year of King Joash the priests still had not repaired the temple.

2 Kings 12:7 (NIV)

Therefore King Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and asked them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage done to the temple? Take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for repairing the temple.”

2 Kings 12:8 (NIV)

The priests agreed that they would not collect any more money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.

2 Kings 12:9 (NIV)

Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid. He placed it beside the altar, on the right side as one enters the temple of the Lord . The priests who guarded the entrance put into the chest all the money that was brought to the temple of the Lord .