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
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
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."
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
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
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
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
glory
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
for Christ's
4.5,11 10.18 Luke 6.22 John 15.21 1 Corinthians 4.10 Revelation 2.3
for when
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
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
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.
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
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
with
walked we not in the same spirit
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
we speak
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
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
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
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
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