2Cor 12:1-10 | ESV | STEP | I must go on boasting . Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord .

g[See ver. 2 above]

hSee 1 Cor. 2:3

i ch. 5:13; 11:16, 17; [ver. 11]

j[ch. 10:10]

l[Num. 33:55; Ezek. 28:24]

m[Luke 13:16]; See 1 Cor. 5:5

n[Matt. 26:44]

o Isa. 43:2

p Isa. 40:29-31; [Phil. 4:13]

qSee 1 Cor. 2:5

r[ch. 5:15]; See Matt. 5:11, 12

s Rom. 5:3

t[ch. 13:4]

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Paul’s Visions and His Thorn

1 I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and ^arevelations of the Lord. 2 I know a man ^bin Christ who fourteen years ago was ^ccaught up to ^dthe third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, ^eGod knows. 3 And I know that this man was caught up into ^fparadise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, ^gGod knows— 4 and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. 5 On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, ^hexcept of my weaknesses— 6 though if I should wish to boast, ⁱI would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 7 So ^jto keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, ^{▼▼Or hears from me, even because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited} ^la thorn was given me in the flesh, ^ma messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 ⁿThree times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9 But he said to me, ^o“My grace is sufficient for you, for ^pmy power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that ^qthe power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 ^rFor the sake of Christ, then, ^sI am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For ^twhen I am weak, then I am strong.