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Second Epistle to the Corinthians, Chapter 12

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2 Corinthians 12 NASB - New American Standard Bible2 Corinthians 12 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 12 of 2 Corinthians—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. 1Boasting is necessary, though it is not profitable; but I will go on to visions and 2revelations [a]of the Lord.
  2. I know a man 3in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, 4God knows—such a man was 5caught up to the 6third heaven.
  3. And I know how such a man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, 7God knows—
  4. was 8caught up into 9Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak.
  5. 10On behalf of such a man I will boast; but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in regard to my 11weaknesses.
  6. For if I do wish to boast I will not be 12foolish, 13for I will be speaking the truth; but I refrain from this, so that no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me.
  7. ¶ Because of the surpassing greatness of the 14revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a 15thorn in the flesh, a 16messenger of Satan to [b]torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!
  8. Concerning this I implored the Lord 17three times that it might leave me.
  9. And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for 18power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather 19boast [c]about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
  10. Therefore 20I am well content with weaknesses, with [d]insults, with 21distresses, with 22persecutions, with 23difficulties, 24for Christ’s sake; for 25when I am weak, then I am strong.
  11. ¶ I have become 26foolish; you yourselves compelled me. Actually I should have been commended by you, for 27in no respect was I inferior to the [e]most eminent apostles, even though 28I am a nobody.
  12. The [f]29signs [g]of a true apostle were performed among you with all perseverance, by [h]signs and wonders and [i]miracles.
  13. For in what respect were you treated as inferior to the rest of the churches, except that 30I myself did not become a burden to you? Forgive me 31this wrong!
  14. ¶ Here 32for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I 33will not be a burden to you; for I 34do not seek what is yours, but 35you; for 36children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but 37parents for their children.
  15. I will 38most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If 39I love you more, am I to be loved less?
  16. But be that as it may, I 40did not burden you myself; nevertheless, crafty fellow that I am, I 41took you in by deceit.
  17. 42Certainly I have not taken advantage of you through any of those whom I have sent to you, have I?
  18. I 43urged 44Titus to go, and I sent 45the brother with him. Titus did not take any advantage of you, did he? Did we not [j]conduct ourselves [k]in the same 46spirit and walk 47in the same steps?
  19. ¶ All this time [l]you have been thinking that we are defending ourselves to you. Actually, 48it is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ; and 49all for your upbuilding, 50beloved.
  20. For I am afraid that perhaps 51when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be 52strife, jealousy, 53angry tempers, 54disputes, 55slanders, 56gossip, 57arrogance, 58disturbances;
  21. I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have 59sinned in the past and not repented of the 60impurity, [m]immorality and sensuality which they have practiced.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or from
  2. ^ Lit beat
  3. ^ Lit in
  4. ^ Or mistreatment
  5. ^ Or super-apostles
  6. ^ Or attesting miracles
  7. ^ Lit of the apostle
  8. ^ Or attesting miracles
  9. ^ Or works of power
  10. ^ Lit walk
  11. ^ Or by the same Spirit
  12. ^ Or have you been thinking...?
  13. ^ I.e. sexual immorality

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 2Co 11:16, 18, 30; 12:5, 9
  2. ^ 1Co 14:6; 2Co 12:7; Ga 1:12; 2:2; Eph 3:3
  3. ^ Ro 16:7
  4. ^ 2Co 11:11
  5. ^ Eze 8:3; Ac 8:39; 2Co 12:4; 1Th 4:17; Re 12:5
  6. ^ De 10:14; Ps 148:4; Eph 4:10; Heb 4:14
  7. ^ 2Co 11:11
  8. ^ Eze 8:3; Ac 8:39; 2Co 12:2; 1Th 4:17; Re 12:5
  9. ^ Lu 23:43
  10. ^ 2Co 12:1
  11. ^ 1Co 2:3; 2Co 12:9f
  12. ^ 2Co 5:13; 11:16f; 12:11
  13. ^ 2Co 7:14
  14. ^ 2Co 12:1
  15. ^ Nu 33:55; Eze 28:24; Ho 2:6
  16. ^ Jb 2:6; Mt 4:10; 1Co 5:5
  17. ^ Mt 26:44
  18. ^ 1Co 2:5; Eph 3:16; Pp 4:13
  19. ^ 1Co 2:3; 2Co 12:5
  20. ^ Ro 5:3; 8:35
  21. ^ 2Co 6:4
  22. ^ 2Th 1:4; 2Ti 3:11
  23. ^ 2Co 6:4
  24. ^ 2Co 5:15, 20
  25. ^ 2Co 13:4
  26. ^ 2Co 5:13; 11:16f; 12:6
  27. ^ 1Co 15:10; 2Co 11:5
  28. ^ 1Co 3:7; 13:2; 15:9
  29. ^ Jn 4:48; Ro 15:19; 1Co 9:1
  30. ^ 1Co 9:12, 18; 2Co 11:9; 12:14
  31. ^ 2Co 11:7
  32. ^ 2Co 1:15; 13:1, 2
  33. ^ 1Co 9:12, 18; 2Co 11:9; 12:13
  34. ^ 1Co 10:24, 33
  35. ^ 1Co 9:19
  36. ^ 1Co 4:14f; Ga 4:19
  37. ^ Pr 19:14; Eze 34:2
  38. ^ Ro 9:3; 2Co 1:6; Pp 2:17; Col 1:24; 1Th 2:8; 2Ti 2:10
  39. ^ 2Co 11:11
  40. ^ 2Co 11:9
  41. ^ 2Co 11:20
  42. ^ 2Co 9:5
  43. ^ 2Co 8:6
  44. ^ 2Co 2:13
  45. ^ 2Co 8:18
  46. ^ 1Co 4:21
  47. ^ Ro 4:12
  48. ^ Ro 9:1; 2Co 2:17
  49. ^ Ro 14:19; 2Co 10:8; 1Th 5:11
  50. ^ Heb 6:9
  51. ^ 1Co 4:21; 2Co 2:1-4
  52. ^ 1Co 1:11; 3:3
  53. ^ Ga 5:20
  54. ^ Ro 2:8; 1Co 11:19
  55. ^ Ro 1:30; Jm 4:11; 1Pe 2:1
  56. ^ Ro 1:29
  57. ^ 1Co 4:6, 18; 5:2
  58. ^ 1Co 14:33
  59. ^ 2Co 13:2
  60. ^ 1Co 6:9, 18; Ga 5:19; Col 3:5

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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