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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: 2 Corinthians 12

Chapter 12

It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

expedient

8:10 John 16:7 18:14 1 Corinthians 6:12 10:23

to glory

11 11:16-30

I will come

Gr. For I will come. visions.

7 Numbers 12:6 Ezekiel 1:1-28 11:24 Daniel 10:5-10 Joel 2:28,29 Acts 9:10-17 Acts 18:9 22:17-21 23:11 26:13-19 Galatians 1:12 2:2 1 John 5:20

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.

knew

3,5

in Christ

5:17,21 13:5 Isaiah 45:24,25 John 6:56 15:4-6 17:21-23 Romans 8:1 Romans 16:7 1 Corinthians 1:30 Galatians 1:22 5:6

about

"A.D 46, at Lystra."

Acts 14:6 22:17

in the

5:6-8 1 Kings 18:12 2 Kings 2:16 Ezekiel 8:1-3 11:24 Acts 8:39,40 22:17 Philippians 1:22,23 Revelation 1:10 4:2

God

3 11:11

caught

4 Luke 24:51 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Hebrews 9:24 Revelation 12:5

third

Genesis 1:14-20 1 Kings 8:27 Isaiah 57:15

How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

paradise

Ezekiel 31:9 Luke 23:43 Revelation 2:7

lawful

or, possible.

Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

such

yet

9,10 11:30

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.

I would

10:8 11:16 1 Corinthians 3:5,9,10

I will

1:18 11:31 Job 24:25 Romans 9:1

above that

7 10:9,10

And lest I should 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.

lest

10:5 11:20 Deuteronomy 8:14 17:20 2 Chronicles 26:16 32:25,26,31 Daniel 5:20 1 Timothy 3:6

the abundance

a thorn

Genesis 32:25,31 Judges 2:3 Ezekiel 28:24 Galatians 4:13

the messenger

Job 2:7 Luke 13:16 1 Corinthians 5:5

to buffet

Matthew 26:67 1 Corinthians 4:11

For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

I besought

Deuteronomy 3:23-27 1 Samuel 15:11 2 Samuel 12:16-18 Psalms 77:2-11 Matthew 20:21,22 Matthew 26:39-44 Hebrews 5:7

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.

My grace

10 3:5,6 Exodus 3:11,12 4:10-15 Deuteronomy 33:25-27 Joshua 1:9 Isaiah 43:2 Jeremiah 1:6-9 Matthew 10:19,20 Luke 21:15 1 Corinthians 10:13 15:10 Colossians 1:28,29 1 Timothy 1:14 Hebrews 4:16

for

Psalms 8:2 Isaiah 35:3,4 40:29-31 41:13-16 Daniel 10:16-19 Ephesians 3:16 Philippians 4:13 Colossians 1:11 Hebrews 11:34

Most

10,15 Matthew 5:11,12

glory

5 11:30

the power

2 Kings 2:15 Isaiah 4:5,6 11:2 Zephaniah 3:17 Matthew 28:18,20 1 Peter 4:13,14

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.

I take

1:4 4:8-10,17 7:4 Acts 5:41 Romans 5:3 8:35-39 Philippians 1:29 2:17,18 Colossians 1:24 James 1:2 1 Peter 1:6,7 4:13,14

in infirmities

11:23-30

for Christ's

4:5,11 10:18 Luke 6:22 John 15:21 1 Corinthians 4:10 Revelation 2:3

for when

9 13:4,9 Ephesians 6:10

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.

become

1:6 11:1,16,17

for in

12 11:5 1 Corinthians 3:4-7,22 Galatians 2:6-14

though

Luke 17:10 1 Corinthians 3:7 15:8-10 Ephesians 3:8

Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

4:2 6:4-10 11:4,6 Romans 15:18,19 1 Corinthians 1:5-7 9:2 14:18

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.

I myself

14 11:8,9 1 Corinthians 9:6,12,15-18

forgive

11:7

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.

the third

That is, the third time I have purposed to visit you. See the parallel passages.

1:15 13:1 1 Corinthians 4:19 11:34 16:5

for I

Proverbs 11:30 Acts 20:33 1 Corinthians 10:33 Philippians 4:1,17 1 Thessalonians 2:5,6,8,19,20 1 Peter 5:2-4

for the

Genesis 24:35,36 31:14,15 Proverbs 13:22 19:14 1 Corinthians 4:14,15 1 Thessalonians 2:11

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

will

9 1:6,14 2:3 7:3 John 10:10,11 Galatians 4:10 Philippians 2:17 Colossians 1:24 1 Thessalonians 2:8 2 Timothy 2:10

you

Gr. your souls.

14 Hebrews 13:17

though

6:12,13 2 Samuel 13:39 17:1-4 18:33 1 Corinthians 4:8-18

But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

I did not

13 11:9,10

being

That is, as my enemies represent.

1:12 4:2 7:2 10:2,3 1 Thessalonians 2:3,5 1 Peter 2:3

Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

18 2 Kings 5:16,20-27 1 Corinthians 4:17 16:10

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?

Titus

2:12,13 7:2,6

with

8:6,18

walked we not in the same spirit

8:6,16-23 Philippians 2:19-22

in the same steps

Numbers 16:15 1 Samuel 12:3,4 Nehemiah 5:14 Acts 20:33-35 Romans 4:12 1 Peter 2:21

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.

think

3:1 5:12

we speak

11:10,31 Romans 9:1

but

5:13 10:8 13:10 1 Corinthians 9:12-23 10:33 14:26

dearly

15 7:1 Romans 12:19 1 Corinthians 10:14 Philippians 4:1

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:

I shall not

21 13:9

and that

1:23,24 2:1-3 10:2,6,8,9 13:2,10 1 Corinthians 4:18-21 5:3-5

debates

1 Corinthians 1:11 3:3,4 4:6-8,18 6:7,8 11:16-19 14:36,37 Galatians 5:15,19-21 Galatians 5:26 Ephesians 4:31,32 James 3:14-16 4:1-5 1 Peter 2:1

whisperings

Psalms 41:7 Proverbs 16:28 Romans 1:29

swellings

2 Peter 2:18 Jude 1:16

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.

my God

7 8:24 9:3,4

that I

2:1-4 Exodus 32:31 Deuteronomy 9:15,25 1 Samuel 15:35 Ezra 9:3 10:1 Psalms 119:136 Jeremiah 9:1 13:17 Luke 9:41,42 Romans 9:2 Philippians 3:18,19

sinned

13:2

and have not

2:5-11 7:9-11 10:6 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Revelation 22:20

uncleanness

Romans 13:13 1 Corinthians 5:1,9-11 6:15-18 Galatians 5:19 Ephesians 5:5,6 Colossians 3:5 1 Thessalonians 4:3-7 Hebrews 13:4 1 Peter 4:2,3 2 Peter 2:10-14,18 Jude 1:7,23 Revelation 21:8 22:15