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