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be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn
in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
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For this
thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
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And he said unto me,
My grace is
sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
Most gladly therefore will I rather
glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
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Therefore I take pleasure in
infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when
I am weak, then am I strong.
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I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended
of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
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Truly the signs
of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
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For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except
it be
that I myself was not
burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
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Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you;
and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay
up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
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And I will very gladly spend and be spent for
you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
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But be it so, I did not burden
you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
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Did I make a gain of you by any of them
whom I sent unto you?
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I desired Titus, and with
him
I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of
you? walked we not in the same spirit?
walked we
not in the same steps?
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Again, think ye that
we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but
we do
all things, dearly beloved,
for your edifying.
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For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and
that
I
shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest
there be
debates, envyings, wraths, strifes,
backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
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And
lest, when I come again, my God will humble
me among you, and
that
I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of
the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
CHAPTER CORINTHIANS 13
This
is
the third
time
I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word
be established.
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I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being
absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I
will not spare:
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Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak,
but is mighty in you.
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For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power
of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
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Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own
selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
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But I trust that ye shall know that
we are not reprobates.
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Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved,
but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
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For we can do nothing
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