\subsection{II Corinthians 12}
\VS{1} It is necessary for me, not being profitable, [that] I will come to visions and 
revelations of the Lord. 
\VS{2} I know [a] man\footnote{Paul is probably 
referring to himself} in Christ before fourteen years ago --- whether in the 
body I do not know, whether out of the body I do not know, God knows ---  
such [a] one snatched to the third heaven. 
\VS{3} And I knew such [a] man ---  
whether in the body or apart from the body, God knows --- 
\VS{4} that he was 
snatched to paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not 
permitted for man to speak. 
\VS{5} Concerning such [a man] I will boast, but 
concerning myself I will not boast except in my weaknesses. 
\VS{6} For if I 
wish to boast, I will not be foolish, for I will speak truth. But I forbear, 
lest any reckon in me above that which he sees me [to be] or hears from me, 
\VS{7} and by the surpassingness of the revelations. Therefore in order that I not 
be elated, there was given me [a] thorn\footnote{or ``splinter''} in the flesh, 
[an] angel [of] Satan, in order that he beat me, in order that I not be elated. 
\VS{8} Concerning this I called upon the Lord thrice, in order that it 
depart from me. 
\VS{9} And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for you, 
for my power is completed\footnote{or ``perfected''} in weakness. Gladly 
therefore I will rather boast in my weaknesses, in order that the power of 
Christ dwell upon me. 
\VS{10} Therefore I take pleasure in weakness, in 
arrogance, in necessity, in persecutions, in difficulties, concerning 
Christ, for when I am weak, then I am able. 
\VS{11} I am become [a] fool; you 
have compelled me. For I ought to be commended by you. For in nothing am I 
inferior to the most chief of [the] apostles, though I am nothing. 
\VS{12} Indeed 
the signs of the apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs, in 
wonders, and in powers. 
\VS{13} For what is it [in] which you are inferior to 
the rest of the assemblies\fnEkklhsia{}, except that I myself did not burden you? Be 
gracious to me [for] this injustice! 
\VS{14} Behold this third time I have 
readiness to come to you, and I will not burden [you], for I do not seek yours, 
but you. For the children ought not be treasuring up for the parents, but 
the parents for the children. 
\VS{15} So I will gladly spend and be spent 
for your psyche-lives\fnPsyche{}. If I more abundantly agape-love you, the less I be 
agape-loved. 
\VS{16} But let\fnImperative{} it be [so], I will not burden 
you, but being cunning I took you with deceit. 
\VS{17} Any of those I sent 
to you, through him did I defraud you?\footnote{grammer indicates ``no'' 
answer expected or expresses uncertainty} Did we not walk in the same 
spirit? In the same footsteps? 
\VS{19} Long ago you suppose that we defend 
ourselves to you. Before god in Christ we speak, but [we do] everything, 
agape-beloved, for your upbuilding. 
\VS{20} For I fear lest, having come, I 
find you not such as I would, and I be found by you such as you would not, 
lest [there be] strife, zeal\footnote{or ``jealousy''}, wraths, disputes, slanders, 
gossiping, conceit, unrulinesses; 
\VS{21} lest when I again have come, God 
humble me before you, and I mourn many of [those] having sinned beforehand and 
having not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness 
which they have practiced.