{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/2-corinthians/12","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T07:39:49.242Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"2 Corinthians","bookSlug":"2-corinthians","chapter":12,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":11,"nextChapter":13,"totalChapters":13,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed): but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I know a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up to the third heaven. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth): "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"That he was caught up into paradise, and heard secret words, which it is not granted to man to utter. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For such an one I will glory; but for myself I will glory nothing, but in my infirmities. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For though I should have a mind to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I will say the truth. But I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth from me. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For which thing thrice I besought the Lord, that it might depart from me. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee; for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. For when I am weak, then am I powerful. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"I am become foolish: you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you: for I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Yet the signs of my apostleship have been wrought on you, in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For what is there that you have had less than the other churches, but that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls; although loving you more, I be loved less. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"But be it so: I did not burthen you: but being crafty, I caught you by guile. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Did I overreach you by any of them whom I sent to you? "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"I desired Titus, and I sent with him a brother. Did Titus overreach you? Did we not walk with the same spirit? did we not in the same steps? "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Of old, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ; but all things, my dearly beloved, for your edification. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For I fear lest perhaps when I come I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before, and have not done penance for the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, that they have committed. "}],"citation":{"inline":"2 Corinthians 12 (DRB)","markdown":"[2 Corinthians 12](https://primebible.com/drb/2-corinthians/12)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/2-corinthians/12 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}