2 Corinthians 12:14-18 (WEL) Look, I am ready to come to you this third time, and I will not be a burden to you, for I am not seeking your money but you. For the children shouldn’t have to provide for the parents, but parents for the children. 15 I will very gladly wear…
2 Corinthians 12:11-13 (WEL) I have become a fool in boasting (yet, you have forced me) when I should have been commended by you. For in nothing am I inferior to those super apostles, though I am a nobody. 12 Truly, the signs of an apostle were done among you in all perseverance, in…
Revelation 2:8-11 (MEV) “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: “The First and the Last, who was dead and came to life, says these things: 9 I know your works and tribulation and poverty (but you are rich). And I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are…
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (WEL) So that I wouldn’t become arrogant—because of the many revelations—there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to repeatedly torment me, lest I would be arrogant. 8 I pleaded with the Lord about this, three times, so that it might leave me. 9 He…
2 Corinthians 12:5-6 (WEL) For even if I wanted to brag, yet I will not brag about myself, but only about my weaknesses. 6 For even if I would like to brag, I’m not going to be a fool, but I will speak the truth, but now I will not, fearing somebody would think…
2 Corinthians 12:1-4 (WEL) There is no advantage for me to brag, so I will move on to visions and revelations from the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ 14 years ago (whether in the body, I cannot tell, or out of the body, I cannot tell. God knows) who was taken…
2 Corinthians 11:30-33 (WEL) If I have to boast, I will boast about my weaknesses. 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. 32 In Damascus, the governor under Aretas, the king, was keeping a constant watch around the city of Damascus,…
2 Corinthians 11:22-29 (WEL) Are they Hebrews? Me too. Are they Israelites? Me too. Are they descendants of Abraham? Me too. 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like a fool). I am even more, in painful work—greater; receiving stripes from whippings—excessively; in imprisonments—more frequently; even more frequently near death. 24 Five…
2 Corinthians 11:16-21 (WEL) Let me repeat. Let no one take me as a fool, and if you do, at least put up with me as a fool so that I can boast a little. 17 What I’m talking about now, I’m not talking according to the Lord, but foolishly in this confident boasting.…