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2 CORINTHIANS 12:7

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. ...

2 CORINTHIANS 12:8

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

2 CORINTHIANS 12:9

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. ...

2 CORINTHIANS 12:10

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. ...

2 CORINTHIANS 12:11

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. ...

2 CORINTHIANS 12:12

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

2 CORINTHIANS 12:13

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. ...

2 CORINTHIANS 12:14

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. ...

2 CORINTHIANS 12:15

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

2 CORINTHIANS 12:16

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

2 CORINTHIANS 12:17

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

2 CORINTHIANS 12:18

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? ...