akSee 1 Cor. 2:3
Acts 18:9-10
9And the Lord said to Paul aone night in ba vision, c“Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, 10 dfor I am with you, and eno one will attack you to harm you, for fI have many in this city who are my people.”Acts 22:17-21
17 g“When I had returned to Jerusalem and hwas praying in the temple, I fell into ia trance 18and saw him saying to me, j‘Make haste and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’ 19And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that in one synagogue after another kI imprisoned and lbeat those who believed in you. 20And when the blood of Stephen myour witness was being shed, nI myself was standing by and oapproving and pwatching over the garments of those who killed him.’ 21And he said to me, ‘Go, for I will send you qfar away to the Gentiles.’”Acts 23:11
11 rThe following night sthe Lord stood by him and said, t“Take courage, for uas you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must vtestify also in Rome.”Acts 27:23-24
23For this very night wthere xstood before me yan angel of the God zto whom I belong and aawhom I worship, 24and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; abyou must stand before Caesar. And behold, acGod has granted you all those who sail with you.’2 Corinthians 12:1-7
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 adrevelations of the Lord. 2I know a man aein Christ who fourteen years ago was afcaught up to agthe third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, ahGod knows. 3And I know that this man was caught up into aiparadise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, ajGod 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, akexcept of my weaknesses— 6though if I should wish to boast, alI 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 amto 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
aoa thorn was given me in the flesh, apa messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Galatians 1:12
12 aqFor I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it arthrough a revelation of Jesus Christ.Galatians 2:2
2I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those aswho seemed influential) the gospel that atI proclaim among the Gentiles, auin order to make sure I was not running or had not avrun in vain.
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