2 Corinthians 12
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It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

expedient.

2 Corinthians 8:10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have …

John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I …

John 18:14 Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was …

1 Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient: all …

1 Corinthians 10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all …

to glory.

2 Corinthians 12:11 I am become a fool in glorying; you have compelled me: for I ought …

2 Corinthians 11:16-30 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool …

I will come. Gr. For I will come. visions.

2 Corinthians 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance …

Numbers 12:6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, …

Ezekiel 1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in …

Ezekiel 11:24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the …

Daniel 10:5-10 Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed …

Joel 2:28,29 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit …

Acts 9:10-17 And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and …

Acts 18:9 Then spoke the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, …

Acts 22:17-21 And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even …

Acts 23:11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good …

Acts 26:13-19 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the …

Galatians 1:12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by …

Galatians 2:2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel …

1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us an understanding, …

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.

2 Corinthians 12:3,5 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, …

in Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:17,21 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things …

2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; prove your own selves. …

Isaiah 45:24,25 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: …

John 6:56 He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him.

John 15:4-6 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, …

John 17:21-23 That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, …

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ …

Romans 16:7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, …

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom, …

Galatians 1:22 And was unknown by face to the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:

Galatians 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; …

about. 'A.D

Acts 14:6 They were ware of it, and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, …

Acts 22:17 And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even …

in the.

2 Corinthians 5:6-8 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at …

1 Kings 18:12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you, that the …

2 Kings 2:16 And they said to him, Behold now, there be with your servants fifty …

Ezekiel 8:1-3 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the …

Ezekiel 11:24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the …

Acts 8:39,40 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord …

Acts 22:17 And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even …

Philippians 1:22,23 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what …

Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great …

Revelation 4:2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set …

God.

2 Corinthians 12:3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, …

See on

2 Corinthians 11:11 Why? because I love you not? God knows.

caught.

2 Corinthians 12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, …

Luke 24:51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, …

1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with …

Hebrews 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which …

Revelation 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with …

third.

Genesis 1:14-20 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven …

1 Kings 8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven …

Isaiah 57:15 For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose …

And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
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.
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.

2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself …

2 Corinthians 11:20 For you suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour …

Deuteronomy 8:14 Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, which …

Deuteronomy 17:20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brothers, and that he turn …

2 Chronicles 26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: …

2 Chronicles 32:25,26,31 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done to …

Daniel 5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, …

1 Timothy 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation …

the abundance.

2 Corinthians 12:1-4 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions …

a thorn.

Genesis 32:25,31 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the …

Judges 2:3 Why I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they …

Ezekiel 28:24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, …

Galatians 4:13 You know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel …

the messenger.

Job 2:7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job …

Luke 13:16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan …

1 Corinthians 5:5 To deliver such an one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, …

to buffet.

Matthew 26:67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote …

1 Corinthians 4:11 Even to this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, …

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

2 Corinthians 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, …

2 Corinthians 3:5,6 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of …

Exodus 3:11,12 And Moses said to God, Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and …

Exodus 4:10-15 And Moses said to the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither …

Deuteronomy 33:25-27 Your shoes shall be iron and brass; and as your days, so shall your …

Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded you? Be strong and of a good courage; be not …

Isaiah 43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through …

Jeremiah 1:6-9 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child…

Matthew 10:19,20 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you shall speak…

Luke 21:15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries …

1 Corinthians 10:13 There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but …

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed …

Colossians 1:28,29 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all …

1 Timothy 1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love …

Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may …

for.

Psalm 8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you ordained strength …

Isaiah 35:3,4 Strengthen you the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees…

Isaiah 40:29-31 He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases …

Isaiah 41:13-16 For I the LORD your God will hold your right hand, saying to you, …

Daniel 10:16-19 And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my …

Ephesians 3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to …

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.

Colossians 1:11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, to …

Hebrews 11:34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out …

Most.

2 Corinthians 12:10,15 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, …

Matthew 5:11,12 Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and …

glory.

2 Corinthians 12:5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but …

2 Corinthians 11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern my infirmities.

the power.

2 Kings 2:15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw …

Isaiah 4:5,6 And the LORD will create on every dwelling place of mount Zion, and …

Isaiah 11:2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom …

Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God in the middle of you is mighty; he will save, he …

Matthew 28:18,20 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All power is given to me …

1 Peter 4:13,14 But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ's sufferings; …

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.

2 Corinthians 1:4 Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort …

2 Corinthians 4:8-10,17 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, …

2 Corinthians 7:4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of …

Acts 5:41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that …

Romans 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that …

Romans 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, …

Philippians 1:29 For to you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe …

Philippians 2:17,18 Yes, and if I be offered on the sacrifice and service of your faith, …

Colossians 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which …

James 1:2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations;

1 Peter 1:6,7 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, …

1 Peter 4:13,14 But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ's sufferings; …

in infirmities. See on.

2 Corinthians 11:23-30 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors …

for Christ's.

2 Corinthians 4:5,11 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves …

2 Corinthians 10:18 For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

Luke 6:22 Blessed are you, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate …

John 15:21 But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because …

1 Corinthians 4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are …

Revelation 2:3 And have borne, and have patience, and for my name's sake have labored, …

for when. See on ver.

2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength …

2 Corinthians 13:4,9 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives by the …

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

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

2 Corinthians 1:15 And in this confidence I was minded to come to you before, that you …

2 Corinthians 13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or …

1 Corinthians 4:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, …

1 Corinthians 11:34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that you come not together …

1 Corinthians 16:5 Now I will come to you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for …

for I.

Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that wins souls is wise.

Acts 20:33 I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

1 Corinthians 10:33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, …

Philippians 4:1,17 Therefore, my brothers dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and …

1 Thessalonians 2:5,6,8,19,20 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as you know, nor …

1 Peter 5:2-4 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, …

for the.

Genesis 24:35,36 And the LORD has blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: …

Genesis 31:14,15 And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion …

Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children: and …

Proverbs 19:14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife …

1 Corinthians 4:14,15 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you…

1 Thessalonians 2:11 As you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of …

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

will.

2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength …

2 Corinthians 1:6,14 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation…

2 Corinthians 2:3 And I wrote this same to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow …

2 Corinthians 7:3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that you …

John 10:10,11 The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: …

Galatians 4:10 You observe days, and months, and times, and years.

Philippians 2:17 Yes, and if I be offered on the sacrifice and service of your faith, …

Colossians 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which …

1 Thessalonians 2:8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have …

2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may …

you. Gr. your souls.

2 Corinthians 12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not …

Hebrews 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for …

though.

2 Corinthians 6:12,13 You are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own bowels…

2 Samuel 13:39 And the soul of king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he …

2 Samuel 17:1-4 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve …

2 Samuel 18:33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the …

1 Corinthians 4:8-18 Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without …

But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
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?
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.
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.

2 Corinthians 12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and …

2 Corinthians 13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also …

and that.

2 Corinthians 1:23,24 Moreover I call God for a record on my soul, that to spare you I …

2 Corinthians 2:1-3 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to …

2 Corinthians 10:2,6,8,9 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with …

2 Corinthians 13:2,10 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time…

1 Corinthians 4:18-21 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you…

1 Corinthians 5:3-5 For I truly, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged …

debates.

1 Corinthians 1:11 For it has been declared to me of you, my brothers, by them which …

1 Corinthians 3:3,4 For you are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and …

1 Corinthians 4:6-8,18 And these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself …

1 Corinthians 6:7,8 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go …

1 Corinthians 11:16-19 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither …

1 Corinthians 14:36,37 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it to you only…

Galatians 5:15,19-21 But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not …

Galatians 5:26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying …

Ephesians 4:31,32 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, …

James 3:14-16 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, …

James 4:1-5 From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even …

1 Peter 2:1 Why laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and …

whisperings.

Psalm 41:7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

Proverbs 16:28 A fraudulent man sows strife: and a whisperer separates chief friends.

Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, …

swellings.

2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through …

Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; …

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.

2 Corinthians 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance …

2 Corinthians 8:24 Why show you to them, and before the churches, the proof of your …

2 Corinthians 9:3,4 Yet have I sent the brothers, lest our boasting of you should be …

that I.

2 Corinthians 2:1-4 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to …

Exodus 32:31 And Moses returned to the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned …

Deuteronomy 9:15,25 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with …

1 Samuel 15:35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless …

Ezra 9:3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and …

Ezra 10:1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and …

Psalm 119:136 Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law.

Jeremiah 9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears…

Jeremiah 13:17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places …

Luke 9:41,42 And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how …

Romans 9:2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

Philippians 3:18,19 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even …

sinned.

2 Corinthians 13:2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time…

and have not.

2 Corinthians 2:5-11 But if any have caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part: …

2 Corinthians 7:9-11 Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed …

2 Corinthians 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your …

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of …

Revelation 22:20 He which testifies these things said, Surely I come quickly. Amen. …

uncleanness.

Romans 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, …

1 Corinthians 5:1,9-11 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and …

1 Corinthians 6:15-18 Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I …

Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, …

Ephesians 5:5,6 For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous …

Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, …

1 Thessalonians 4:3-7 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should …

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators …

1 Peter 4:2,3 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to …

2 Peter 2:10-14,18 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, …

Jude 1:7,23 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, …

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, …

Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, …

Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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