hSee 1 Cor. 2:3
qSee 1 Cor. 2:5
2 Corinthians 12:1-9
Paul’s Visions and His Thorn
1I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and arevelations of the Lord. 2I 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. 3And 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— 4and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. 5On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, hexcept of my weaknesses— 6though 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. 7So 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. 9But 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. Galatians 6:13-14
13For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. 14But far be it from me to boast rexcept in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which ▼▼Or through whom
the world thas been crucified to me, and I to the world. Ephesians 2:9
9 unot a result of works, vso that no one may boast.
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