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knoweth.
12
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire
occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
13
For such
are
false apostles,
deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14
And no marvel; for Satan
himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15
Therefore
it is
no great thing if his ministers also
be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
16
I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may
boast myself a little.
17
That which I speak, I speak
it
not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in
this confidence of boasting.
18
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
19
For ye
suffer fools gladly, seeing ye
yourselves
are wise.
20
For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage,
if a man devour
you,
if a man take
of you,
if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
21
I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold,
(I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
22
Are they Hebrews? so
am
I. Are they Israelites? so
am
I. Are
they the seed of Abraham? so
am
I.
23
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I
am
more;
in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
24
Of
the Jews five times received I forty
stripes
save one.
25
Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I
stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26
In
journeyings
often,
in
perils of waters,
in
perils of robbers,
in
perils by
mine own
countrymen,
in
perils by the
heathen,
in
perils in the city,
in
perils in the wilderness,
in
perils in the sea,
in
perils among false
brethren;
27
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often,
in cold and nakedness.
28
Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily,
the care of all the churches.
29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
30
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
31
The God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
32
In Damascus
the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to
apprehend me:
33
And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his
hands.
CHAPTER CORINTHIANS 12
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2
I
knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out
of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
3
And I knew
such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
4
How that he
was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
5
Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
6
For though I
would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but
now
I forbear, lest any man
should think of me above that which he seeth me
to be,
or
that
he heareth of me.
7
And lest I should
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