{"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/web/2-corinthians/12","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-07-26T12:53:08.561Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"2 Corinthians","bookSlug":"2-corinthians","chapter":12,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":11,"nextChapter":13,"totalChapters":13,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don't know; God knows),"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"He has said to me, |My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.| Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you?"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn't we walk in the same spirit? Didn't we walk in the same steps?"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed."}],"citation":{"inline":"2 Corinthians 12 (WEB)","markdown":"[2 Corinthians 12](https://primebible.com/web/2-corinthians/12)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/2-corinthians/12 (accessed 2026-07-26)."}}